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MedOBIS: Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System Citation Hellenic Centre For Marine Research, MedOBIS - Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics; Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management Department, Heraklion, Greece. Http://www.medobis.org/. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/481 Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description The Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System (MedOBIS) is a distributed system that allows you to search multiple datasets simultaneously for biogeographic information on marine organisms. more An attempt to collect, format, analyse and disseminate surveyed marine biological data deriving from the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea region is currently under development at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR, Greece). The effort has been supported by the MedOBIS project (Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System) and has been carried out in cooperation with the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (Greece), the National Institute of Oceanography (Israel) and the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (Ukraine). The aim is to develop a taxon-based biogeography database and online data server with a link to survey and provide satellite environmental data. In its completion, the MedOBIS online marine biological data system (http://www.medobis.org/) will be a single source of biological and environmental data (raw and analysed) as well as an online GIS tool for access of historical and current data by marine researchers. It will function as the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea node of EurOBIS (the European node of the International OBIS initiative, part of the Census of Marine Life). The spatial component of data has led to the integration of datasets by means of the Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. The latter is widely used as the natural framework for spatial data handling. GIS serves as the basic technological infrastructure for several online marine biodiversity databases available on the Internet today. Developments like OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, http://www.iobis.org/), OBIS-SEAMAP (Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, http://seamap.env.duke.edu) and FIGIS (FAO Fisheries Global Information System, http://www.fao.org/fi/figis) facilitate the study of anthropogenic impacts on threatened species, enhance our ability to test biogeographic and biodiversity models, support modeling efforts to predict distribution changes in response to environmental change and develop a strong potential for the public outreach component. In addition, such online database systems provide a broader view of marine biodiversity problems and allow the development of management practices that are based on synthetic analysis of interdisciplinary data. Towards this end, a new online marine biological information system is developed. MedOBIS (Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System) intends to assemble, formulate and disseminate marine biological data for the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions focusing on the assurance and longevity of historical surveyed data, the assembly of current and new information and the dissemination of raw and integrated biological and environmental data and future products through the Internet. To provide a taxon-based search capability to the MedOBIS development, the sampling data as well as the relevant spatial data are stored in the database, so taxonomic data can be linked with the geographical data by queries. To reference each species to its location on the map, the database queries are stored and added to the applet as individual layers. A search function written in JavaScript searches the attribute data of that layer, displays the results in a separate window and marks the matching stations on the map. Finally, selecting several stations by drawing a zooming rectangle on the map provides a list with predefined themes from which the user may select more information. As more data will be assembled in time-series databases, an additional future work will include the development of MedOBIS data analysis phase, which is planned to include GIS modeling/mapping of species-environment interactions. Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Benthos Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Benthic fauna, Benthos, Biogeography, Data, Data analysis, Data transmission, Marine Genomics, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Aegean, MED, Black Sea, MED, Ionian Sea, Animalia, Protozoa Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 12,3; MinLat: 31,89 - MaxLong: 35,39; MaxLat: 45,69 [WGS84] MED, Aegean [Marine Regions] MED, Black Sea [Marine Regions] MED, Ionian Sea [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage From 1937 on [In Progress] Not relevant Parameters Biomass Density Contributors Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), more, data owner, database developer, data creator Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Published datasets: Aegean macrobenthic fauna, more Aegean Polychaetes, more Aegean Sea Cruise Benthos, more Benthic communities in Amvrakikos Wetlands: Mazoma, Tsopeli,Tsoukalio, Rodia and Logarou lagoons (September 2010 – July 2011), more Benthic data from Sevastopol (Black Sea), more Benthos Cretan Continental Shelf, more Benthos from Karkinitsky Gulf (Black Sea), more Billards A. 1936.The fishery grounds near Alexandria. VI Hydroidea. Notes et memoires No 13, more Bionomy of macrobenthic amphipods, molluscs and polychaetes in the Evros Delta, September 1981, more Broch H. 1935. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. III Cirripeds. Notes et Memoires No 10., more Checklist Amphipods Greece, more Diatoms of Laspi Bay (Black Sea), more Eastern Mediterranean Syllidae from three locations in Crete and Israel, more Environmental impact assessment of oil pollution accident in Gialova lagoon and Navarino Bay, more Fauna Bentonica, more Fauvel P. 1937. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XI.Annelida Polychaeta. Notes et memoires No 19, more Harant H. 1939. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. Ascidiacea (Cartes 1-5). Notes et Memoirs No 28, more Helfer H. 1936. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. VIII Pantopoda. Notes et memoires No 16, more Jalta-Black Sea, more Kalamitsi, more Karakassis dataset (Cretan shelf), more Kerkyra, more Kyklades-data of the Central Aegean Sea, more Laspibay-Black Sea, more Levantive Palmachim Trawl nets Benthos, more Macrofauna Bahia de Blanes, more MegFeod-Black Sea, more MidMedPol: Polychaetes from midlittoral rocky shores in Greece and Italy (Mediterranean Sea), more Monthly variation in the macrozoobenthic community structure in Laki Lagoon (Evros Delta, N. Aegean Sea), more Monthly variation in the macrozoobenthic community structure in Monolimni Lagoon (Evros Delta, N. Aegean Sea), more Mortensen Th. And Steuer Ad. 1937. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XIII Echinoderma. Notes and Memoirs No 21. Hydrobiology and Fisheries Directorate, Egypt, more Mytilini, more New Records of Polychaetes from the South Part of Suez Canal, Egypt, more Phytoplankton of Lebanon, more Polychaeta from the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria, more Polychaete Study in Northeastern Mediterranean Coast of Egypt, more Polychaetes from two subtidal rocky shores of the North coast of Crete, collected for the NaGISA project 2007-2008, more Records of fish species in coastal lagoons and sea shore that belong to Municipality of Preveza, for the period 2002-2011, more Records of fish species in coastal lagoons that belong to Municipality of Arta, for the period 1999-2011, more Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-10 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas- Calcareous Algae, more Report on the Danish Oceanographical expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas - Pelagic Polychaetes, more Report on the Danish Oceanographical Expeditions 1908-1910 to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas- Engraulidae-Clupeidae, more SARONIKOS, more Schellenberg A. 1936. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. Amphipoda Benthonica. Notes and memoirs no 18, more Sediment microbial diversity (16S) of the Mazoma, Tsopeli,Tsoukalio, Rodia and Logarou lagoons (February 2011), more SNU-FF Crustacea (2004-2005), more SNU-FF Macrobenthos (1999), more SNU-FF Meiobenthos (2009-2010), more SNU-FF Mollusca (2001-2002), more SNU-FF Phytoplankton and zooplankton (1999-2010), more Spatial and seasonal variability of the molluscan macrofauna at the marine-lagoonal environmental gradient at Kalloni saltworks (Lesvos Island, NE Aegean Sea, Greece), more Spatial distribution of the macrobenthic fauna in Laki Lagoon (Evros Delta, N. Aegean Sea), more Steuer A. 1939. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XIX Mollusca. Notes and Memoirs No 33, more Steuer Ad., 1939. The fishery grounds near Alexandria. XVIII Sipunculoidea, Phoronidea, Brachiopoda, Enteropneusta and Acrania. Notes and Memoirs No. 30. Fouad I Institute of Hydrobioloy and Fisheries, Egypt, more Strelbay, more Syllidae (Polychaeta) from the North Mediterranean Coast of Egypt, more Syllidae, Magelonidae and Maldanidae from the Northwestern Coast of Egypt, more The fishery ground near Alexandria. XVI. Cumacea, stomatopoda, leptostraca by Adolf Steuer (1938).Notes and Memoirs No 26, more The fishery ground near Alexandria. XXI. Tanaidacea and Isopoda by H.J. Larwood (1940).Notes and Memoirs No35., more The Fishery Grounds near Alexandria.VII.Decapoda.By Heinrich Balss.(1936).Notes and memoirs No. 15, more Zooplankton of Lebanon, more Publication Describing this dataset Arvanitidis, C.; Valavanis, V.D.; Eleftheriou, A.; Costello, M.J.; Faulwetter, S.; Gotsis, P.; Kitsos, M.S.; Kirmtzoglou, I.; Zenetos, A.; Petrov, A.; Galil, B.; Papageorgiou, N. (2006). MedOBIS: biogeographic information system for the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 316: 225-230, more Arvanitidis, C.; Valavanis, V.D. (2004). MedOBIS: biogeographic information system for the Mediterranean and Black Sea, in: Ocean Biodiversity Informatics, Hamburg, Germany: 29 November to 1 December 2004: book of abstracts. pp. 30, more URLs Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Data collection Release date: 2004-12-17 Metadatarecord created: 2004-12-07 Information last updated: 2022-08-03 | ||||
