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Development of an Atlantic Canada Marine Biodiversity Information
System Based on a Museum Collection: A Case Study
Angela J. Martin, Lou Van Guelpen, Gerhard Pohle, and Mark J. Costello
Atlantic Reference Centre
(Huntsman Marine Science Centre)
St. Andrews, Canada
This talk
• Atlantic Reference Centre– establishment/joining of two collections
• Process of creating an Canadian Atlantic Biodiversity Information System
• Future goals of linking to other bioinitiatives and providing an accessible on-line version
Atlantic Reference Centre
• Division of the Huntsman Marine Science Centre• Established in 1984• Joint program between Department of Fisheries
and Oceans and Huntsman Marine Science Centre
Establishment of the ARC
• ID Centre • Department of
Fisheries and Oceans• Established in 1960’s• Collection:
Invertebrates and Fishes
• Database: MINISIS
• Ichthyoplankton Lab• Huntsman Marine
Science Centre• Established in 1977• Collection: Fishes• Database: dBase,
Revelation, Advanced Revelation
ARC collections
• Represent marine fauna of the Bay of Fundy & Gulf of Maine, Scotian Shelf, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and Newfoundland-Labrador
• Premier research museum for Marine life in Atlantic Canada
• Many lots were collected on surveys • Valuable for ecological, population, and
biogeographic as well as systematic studies
• Fish - 23254 lots• Invertebrates - 13358 lots • Larval Fish Collection - 88610 lots
• Collection also includes type species and osteological preparations.
• Larval Fish Collection 88610 lots– largest collection in North America– documented in Copeia 1995(1):48-70
• Involved in major research programs:– U.S. GLOBEC (Georges Bank)
• In house expertise include:– ontogeny, taxonomy, systematics, and evolution-
crustaceans and fishes– marine benthic biodiversity and ecology– environmental baseline research, monitoring and
impact assessment– procedures for biological sample processing and
museum curation
ARC museum database: Beginning
• HMSC fishes remained in Advance Revelation• DFO fishes - remained MINISIS • DFO invertebrates - money & effort brought
database from MINISIS to Advanced Revelation
ARC database restructuring
• 2nd ARC director adopted MUSE– Efforts to change from Adv. Rev failed– fish were entered manually– inverts lanquished, eventually entered manually
• In 2001, database updated to SPECIFY
• Data management and biodiversity funding programs brought completion of computerizing catalogued specimens.– DFO (government internships, summer
programs)– U.S. (GMBIS, funded by NOPP & CoML)
• Database – online through GeoConnections
• Through several biodiversity initiatives the ARC database, together with other sources, has been used to create species list, complemented by standardized taxonomy (ITIS & FishBase)– AC CDC: Habitat classification– CDC: images– GMBIS: distribution mapping/analyses– ETF: Biological and ecological info
Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Center (AC CDC)
• Funded by GOMCME.
• Is there a link between geographic seascapes and their biological communities?
• Focus on Bay of Fundy rare, endangered and keystone vertebrate species.
• Project provided preliminary fish list.
Figure ##. Total number of Atlantic Halibut per groundfish trawl station from groundfish surveys conducted from 1970 to 2001. Map dots are scaled according to the total number of fish caught at each trawl station. Seascapes are coloured according to the percent of the total number of fish caught within their boundaries, with percent total catch per seascape indicated.
Fishes of Atlantic Canada: A Photographic Compendium
• Sponsored by Industry Canada, Canada’s Digital Collections and hosted there http://collections.ic.gc.ca/compendium
• Rescued hundreds of photographs, slides, and illustrations of fishes from Canadian Atlantic waters.
• Each species was accompanied by common name, scientific name, status, and basic biological and ecological traits.
Bay of Fundy Component (Phase I)
• Sponsored by the Province of New Brunswick Environmental Trust Fund
• List of all annelids, crustaceans, echinoderms and fishes of the Bay of Fundy
- Classification (Based on ITIS), Synonyms and common names, Author & year of description, Identification and ecological, publications, Habitat description, Abundance (on a 1-3 rating system), Geographic range, Importance (e.g. Commercial, conservation), Other (reproduction, maximum size)
Bay of Fundy Component (Phase II)
An expansion of Phase I – additional taxa:
• Seaweeds• Molluscs• Remaining minor invertebrate phyla• Birds • Mammals• Phytoplankton
Canada’s Digital Collections II
• Sponsored by Industry Canada, Canada’s Digital Collections
• Canadian Atlantic fishes in ARC museum - specific locality records.
• Each species - a map of distribution within these waters.
• Online via CDC web site. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/
Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS)
• Funded by NOPP and CoML• Objective: development of a prototype
information system for integration, visualization, and analysis of biogeographical and oceangraphic information using the internet as a medium as tools such as GIS for modeling of marine populations
• Partners include USC, DFO, and ARC• http://cephbase.biology.dal.ca/gmbis
GMBIS rational purpose uses
• To create:– support tool that facilitates the integrated
approach to fisheries management in the Gulf of Maine
– a model for OBIS by providing a generic framework for development of biogeographical systems in other regions
GMBIS
GMBIS Client PC External Client PCEASy Desktop Personal DatabaseData Translator Web browserPersonal DatabaseWeb Browser
BIO & ARC Database Servers Online Data SourcesAllelic Ecosystem Specimen/Species Fishbase Genbank RDP
Gulf of Maine Information System ServerHomepage Metadata Viewer
Specimen/Species InterfaceGenetics LinksEASy Netviewer
Flow of unprocessed Core Data & Metadata
EASy Project Files Flow of integrated& Algorithms Biogeographic Information
eASY Software
• Function:– principal data integration, viewing & analysis
software of GMBIS• Designed for the
– storage– integration– analysis – and dynamic display of spatially referenced series
of diverse oceanographic data, including satellite imagery
Biological Structure – Gulf of Maine
Seasonal climatologies & BIO groundfish database
Bottom Temp, Avg.Cod abundance[20yr]Summer, NE.GOM
Overlay: [Chl-A] imagery, flow fields, bathymetrySpring, S.GOM/Georges Bank
• links b/w areas [phytoplankton], local circulation & topography • phytoplankton concentrated at Georges Bank & along coast
• distribution of cod generally constrained to rel. narrow bottom temperature range• within this spatial autocorrelation/local structure observed that is not explained by Temperature• note: considerable temporal variability in spatial abundance distributions of cod
Future Funding: GeoConnections
• Sponsored by Natural Resources Canada
• program to coordinate Canada’s numerous databases of geographic information and make them accessible via a common internet web site
• Proposal on behalf of the Centre for Marine Biodiversity. CMB members include DFO laboratories, Universities, NGOs and personnel.
• CMB Goal: - Promote scientific activity in support of the
protection of marine biodiversity in NW Atlantic.
- To expand CMB membership to a more national basis thus expanding biodiversity datasets and computerized museum catalogues.
Proposal Objectives
• For CMB members to:
- Consolidate computerized museum catalogues and biodiversity datasets into an integrated database at BIO.
- Provide Internet access to this database• For ARC museum:
- One online source to disseminate data
• Proposal partners include:-DFO-ARC-AC CDC-Nova Scotia Museum-Marine Invertebrate Diversity Initiative (MIDI)-Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN)
Ultimately..
• Species Information System:– Linked to complementary biodiversity
initiatives both nationally and internationally. – Nationally: Centre for Marine Biodiversity,
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility)– Internationally: (CoML, Global Biodiversity
Information Facilty, OBIS, FishBase, LarvalBase, The North Atlantic Project)
– Link to environmental data and tools such as GMBIS and Virtual Museum of Canada to analyze these records.
– Provide a comprehensive and easily accessible biodiversity information system, allowing researchers and managers to better protect the natural environment and promote sustainable use of natural resources.