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Data integration for European marine biodiversity research: creating a database on benthos and plankton to study large-scale patterns and long-term changes

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The general aim of setting up a central database on benthos and plankton was to integrate long-, medium- and short-term datasets on marine biodiversity. Such a database makes it possible to analyse species assemblages and their changes on spatial and temporal scales across Europe. Data collation lasted from early 2007 until August 2008, during which 67 datasets were collected covering three divergent habitats (rocky shores, soft bottoms and the pelagic environment). The database contains a total of 4,525 distinct taxa, 17,117 unique sampling locations and over 45,500 collected samples, representing almost 542,000 distribution records. The database geographically covers the North Sea (221,452 distribution records), the North-East Atlantic (98,796 distribution records) and furthermore the Baltic Sea, the Arctic and the Mediterranean. Data from 1858 to 2008 are presented in the database, with the longest time-series from the Baltic Sea soft bottom benthos. Each delivered dataset was subjected to certain quality control procedures, especially on the level of taxonomy. The standardisation procedure enables pan-European analyses without the hazard of taxonomic artefacts resulting from different determination skills. A case study on rocky shore and pelagic data in different geographical regions shows a general overestimation of biodiversity when making use of data before quality control compared to the same estimations after quality control. These results prove that the contribution of a misspelled name or the use of an obsolete synonym is comparable to the introduction of a rare species, having adverse effects on further diversity calculations. The quality checked data source is now ready to test geographical and temporal hypotheses on a large scale.

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Acknowledgements

The first author would like to thank all LargeNet scientists for their patience in answering the many questions concerning the submitted datasets. The LargeNet project has been carried out in the framework of the MarBEF Network of Excellence ‘Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning’ which is funded by the Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystem Programme of the European Community’s Sixth Framework Programme (Contract No. GOCE-CT-2003-505446). This publication is contribution number 09041 of MarBEF.

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  1. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, Wandelaarkaai 7, 8400, Oostende, Belgium

    Leen Vandepitte, Bart Vanhoorne, Jan Mees & Edward Vanden Berghe

  2. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, P.O. Box 180, 27483, Helgoland, Germany

    Alexandra Kraberg & Katharina Reichert

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    Natalie Anisimova

  4. Department of Biology, Laboratory of Zoology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 134, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Chryssanthi Antoniadou

  5. Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Rua do Bragas 298, 4050-123, Porto, Portugal

    Rita Araújo & Isabel Sousa Pinto

  6. Alfred Wegener Institue for Polar and Marine Research, AM Handelshafen 12, 27570, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Inka Bartsch & Eike Rachor

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre d’Océanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d’Endoume, Rue de la Batterie des Lions, 13007, Marseille, France

    Beatriz Beker, Marilyse de Boissier & Maurice Libes

  8. Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Pisa, Via Derna 1, 56126, Pisa, Italy

    Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi & Iacopo Bertocci

  9. Akvaplan-Niva, Polar Environmental Centre, 9296, Tromsø, Norway

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    Keith Cooper

  11. Wageningen IMARES, Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies, Korringaweg 5, 4400 AB, Yerseke, The Netherlands

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  12. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 19013, Anavissos, Attika, Greece

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The first three authors were responsible for the coordination of writing this article; the first two authors have taken the lead on this article. Other authors have mainly contributed by making their data available and they are mentioned in alphabetical order.

D. J. Crisp and A. J. Southward are deceased.

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Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Kraberg, A. et al. Data integration for European marine biodiversity research: creating a database on benthos and plankton to study large-scale patterns and long-term changes. Hydrobiologia 644, 1–13 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0108-z

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