Document of dataset 6527

Dataset record

Type
Dataset
title in English
Mass mortality events in Mediterranean marine coastal ecosystems
Acronym
MME-T-MEDNet
Description in English
The main objectives of the initiative are to: 1) Assemble and standardize existing information on MMEs; 2)Identify geographic gaps that need to be addressed through future monitoring and research efforts; 3) Assessing species vulnerability to MMEs and identifying observation taxonomic gaps; 4) Fostering the analysis of the relationship between MMEs and environmental conditions, with an emphasis on marine heat waves; 5) Provide an unrestricted, open-source and easy access dataset; 6) Ensure transparency and clarity regarding the origin of each dataset and adequate data citation; 7) Providing information for the assessment of the impact of MMEs on the biodiversity and socio-economic activities. Field observations of mass mortality events in a specific geographic location (site) are the core of the MME-T-MEDNet database. One database record corresponds to the observation of abnormal (high) values of partial and/or total mortality (usually through quantitative indicators) in one local population at one specific time (or period). Here, we consider a local population as a group of colonies or specimens/individuals of the same species (ranging from tens to thousands depending on the species) dwelling in a specific geographic location that is defined by coordinates and depth range.
Abstract in English
The Mass Mortality Events database (hereafter MME-T-MEDNet) is a collaborative initiative involving more than 30 research institutions from 10 Mediterranean countries including EU and non-EU countries. This initiative aims to facilitate the access to information (published in scientific journals and gray literature or still unpublished) related to Mediterranean Mass Mortality Events (MMEs).
Contactpoint
Email
garrabou@icm.csic.es
License
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0.html
bibliographicCitation
Garrabou, Joaquim; Bazairi, Hocein; Espinosa, Free; Ramdani, Mohamed; Grimes, Samir; Benabdi, Mouloud; Ben Souissi, Jamila; Soufi, Emna; Khamassi, Faten; Ghanem, Raouia; Ocaña, Óscar; Ramos Esplá, Alfonso A.; Izquierdo, Andrés; Antón, Irene; Portillo, Esther; Barberá, Carmen; Marbà, Núria; Hendriks, Iris E.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Cebrian, Emma; Deudero Company, María de la Salud; Díaz, David; Vázquez-Luis, Maite; Álvarez, Elvira; Linares, Cristina; Hereu, Bernat; Kersting, D. K.; Bensoussan, Nathaniel; Gómez-Gras, D.; Azzurro, Ernesto; Ledoux, J. B.; Gori, Andrea; Viladrich, Nuria; Sartoretto, Stéphane; Pairaud, Ivane Lilian; Ruitton, Sandrine; Fraschetti, Simonetta; Rivetti, Irene; Cerrano, Carlo; Ponti, Massimo; Bavestrello, G.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Bo, Marzia; Bertolino, Marco; Montefalcone, Monica; Kipson, Silvija; Bakran-Petricioli, Tatjana; Gerovasileiou, Vasilis; Sini, Maria; Tuney Kizilkaya, Inci; Zilizkaya, Zafer; Eda Topçu, N.; Rilov, Gil ; 2018; "MME-T-MEDNet: Mass mortality events in Mediterranean marine coastal ecosystems [Dataset]"; DIGITAL.CSIC;
Release date
Oct 26 2021 12:00AM

Temporal coverage

Temporal
Start date
1979-01-01
End date
2019-01-01

Geographical coverage

Spatial
MED, Adriatic Sea
MED, Aegean
MED, Alboran Sea
MED, Eastern Mediterranean
MED, Ionian Sea
MED, Tunisia
MED, Western Mediterranean

Thesaurus terms

Keyword
Bio-geographical regions
Biota
Citizen science
Environment
Geoscientific Information
Habitats and biotopes
Metadata non conformant
Metadata not evaluated
No limitations to public access
Oceans
Sea regions
WGS84 (EPSG:4326)
XYZ ASCII

Themes

theme
Biology > Benthos
Biology > Macroalgae

Taxonomic terms

Taxon keywords
Annelida
Ascidiacea
Bivalvia
Bryozoa
Chlorophyta
Cnidaria
Echinodermata
Porifera
Rhodophyta

Ownerships

contactPoint
Joaquim Garrabou
contactPoint
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Joaquim Garrabou
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Carlos Duarte
creator
Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
creator
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
creator
Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
creator
Iris Hendriks
creator
Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados
creator
Samir Grimes
creator
National high school of sea science and coastal development
creator
Bernat Hereu
creator
Institut de Recerca de Biodiversitat
creator
Carlo Cerrano
creator
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
creator
Cristina Linares
creator
Institut de Recerca de Biodiversitat
creator
Diego Kersting
creator
Institut de Recerca de Biodiversitat
creator
Jean-Baptiste Ledoux
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Simonetta Fraschetti
creator
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
creator
Vasilis Gerovasileiou
creator
Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
creator
Massimo Ponti
creator
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
creator
Daniel Gómez-Gras
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Nathaniel Bensoussan
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Samir Grimes
creator
National high school of sea science and coastal development
creator
Alfonso Ángel Ramos Espla
creator
The University of Alicante
creator
Nuria Marbá
creator
Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados
creator
Iris Hendriks
creator
Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados
creator
Carlos Duarte
creator
Red Sea Research Center
creator
Salud Deudero Company
creator
Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
creator
Bernat Hereu
creator
Institut de Recerca de Biodiversitat
creator
Eva Turicchia
creator
University of Bologna
creator
Paula López-Sendino
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Hocein Bazairi
creator
BIOECOGEN Laboratory
creator
Free Espinosa
creator
Laboratorio di Biologia Marina
creator
Mohammed Ramdani
creator
Institut Scientifique de Rabat
creator
Mouloud Benabdi
creator
Laboratoire Réseau de Surveillance Environnementale
creator
Jamila Ben Souissi
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Emna Soufi
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Faten Khamassi
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Raouia Ghanem
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Oscar Ocaña Vicente
creator
Museo del Mar de Ceuta
creator
Andres Izquierdo
creator
Centro de Investigación Marina
creator
Irene Anton
creator
Centro de Investigación Marina
creator
Carmen Barbera
creator
Departamento Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada
creator
Emma Cebrian
creator
Centro de Investigación Marina
creator
David Díaz
creator
Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
creator
Maite Vázquez-Luis
creator
Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
creator
Elvira Alvarez
creator
Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
creator
Andrea Gori
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
contributor
Núria Viladrich
contributor
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Stephane Sartoretto
creator
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
creator
Ivane Pairaud
creator
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
creator
Sandrine Ruitton
creator
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
creator
Elodie Rouanet
creator
Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers
creator
Elodie Rouanet
creator
Institut Pythéas
creator
Nuria Teixidó
creator
Sorbonne Université
creator
Nuria Teixidó
creator
Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
creator
Nuria Teixidó
creator
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
creator
Irene Rivetti
creator
Department of Biology
creator
Ernesto Azzurro
creator
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
creator
Ernesto Azzurro
creator
Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies
creator
Giorgio Bavestrello
creator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
creator
Giorgio Bavestrello
creator
Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
creator
Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti
creator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
creator
Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti
creator
Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
creator
Marzia Bo
creator
Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
creator
Marco Bertolino
creator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
creator
Marco Bertolino
creator
Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
creator
Monica Montefalcone
creator
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
creator
Monica Montefalcone
creator
Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
creator
Giovanni Chimienti
creator
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
creator
Daniele Grech
creator
International Marine Centre
creator
Gil Rilov
creator
National Institute of Oceanography
creator
Zafer Kizilkaya
creator
Mediterranean Conservation Society
creator
Maria Sini
creator
Department of marine sciences
creator
Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli
creator
Faculty of Science; Department of Biology
contributor
Silvija Kipson
contributor
Faculty of Science; Department of Biology
creator
Esther Rubio-Portillo
creator
Departamento de Fisología, Genética y Microbiología
creator
Paula López-Sendino
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Hocein Bazairi
creator
BIOECOGEN Laboratory
creator
Free Espinosa
creator
Laboratorio di Biologia Marina
creator
Mohammed Ramdani
creator
Institut Scientifique de Rabat
creator
Mouloud Benabdi
creator
Laboratoire Réseau de Surveillance Environnementale
creator
Jamila Ben Souissi
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Emna Soufi
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Faten Khamassi
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Raouia Ghanem
creator
Tunis El Manar University
creator
Oscar Ocaña Vicente
creator
Museo del Mar de Ceuta
creator
Andres Izquierdo
creator
Centro de Investigación Marina
creator
Irene Anton
creator
Centro de Investigación Marina
creator
Carmen Barbera
creator
Centro de Investigación Marina
creator
Emma Cebrian
creator
Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes
creator
Andrea Gori
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Núria Viladrich
creator
Institute of Marine Sciences
creator
Stephane Sartoretto
creator
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
creator
Ivane Pairaud
creator
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
creator
Sandrine Ruitton
creator
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
creator
Gérard Pergent
creator
Universita di Corsica
creator
Christine Pergent-Martini
creator
Universita di Corsica
creator
Inci Tuney Kizilkaya
creator
Department of Biology
creator
Zafer Kizilkaya
creator
Mediterranean Conservation Society
creator
Jean G. Harmelin
creator
Université Aix-Marseille III
creator
Nur Eda Topçu
creator
Department of Marine Biology

Publication references

related reference
Describing this dataset /id/publication/324325

Dataset references

record
European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Special collections

part of special collection
available through EurOBIS
EMODNET

Document metadata

date created
2020-06-25
date modified
2025-03-26