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  1. Article: Aligning Standards Communities for Omics Biodiversity Data: Sustainable Darwin Core-MIxS Interoperability.

    Meyer, Raïssa / Appeltans, Ward / Duncan, William D / Dimitrova, Mariya / Gan, Yi-Ming / Stjernegaard Jeppesen, Thomas / Mungall, Christopher / Paul, Deborah L / Provoost, Pieter / Robertson, Tim / Schriml, Lynn / Suominen, Saara / Walls, Ramona / Sweetlove, Maxime / Ung, Visotheary / Van de Putte, Anton / Wallis, Elycia / Wieczorek, John / Buttigieg, Pier Luigi

    Biodiversity data journal

    2023  Volume 11, Page(s) e112420

    Abstract: The standardization of data, encompassing both primary and contextual information (metadata), plays a pivotal role in facilitating data (re-)use, integration, and knowledge generation. However, the biodiversity and omics communities, converging on omics ... ...

    Abstract The standardization of data, encompassing both primary and contextual information (metadata), plays a pivotal role in facilitating data (re-)use, integration, and knowledge generation. However, the biodiversity and omics communities, converging on omics biodiversity data, have historically developed and adopted their own distinct standards, hindering effective (meta)data integration and collaboration. In response to this challenge, the Task Group (TG) for Sustainable DwC-MIxS Interoperability was established. Convening experts from the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) alongside external stakeholders, the TG aimed to promote sustainable interoperability between the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS) and Darwin Core (DwC) specifications. To achieve this goal, the TG utilized the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontology Mappings (SSSOM) to create a comprehensive mapping of DwC keys to MIxS keys. This mapping, combined with the development of the MIxS-DwC extension, enables the incorporation of MIxS core terms into DwC-compliant metadata records, facilitating seamless data exchange between MIxS and DwC user communities. Through the implementation of this translation layer, data produced in either MIxS- or DwC-compliant formats can now be efficiently brokered, breaking down silos and fostering closer collaboration between the biodiversity and omics communities. To ensure its sustainability and lasting impact, TDWG and GSC have both signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on creating a continuous model to synchronize their standards. These achievements mark a significant step forward in enhancing data sharing and utilization across domains, thereby unlocking new opportunities for scientific discovery and advancement.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-03
    Publishing country Bulgaria
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2736709-5
    ISSN 1314-2828
    ISSN 1314-2828
    DOI 10.3897/BDJ.11.e112420
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  2. Article ; Online: Marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States: History, current status and future trends.

    Anderson, Donald M / Fensin, Elizabeth / Gobler, Christopher J / Hoeglund, Alicia E / Hubbard, Katherine A / Kulis, David M / Landsberg, Jan H / Lefebvre, Kathi A / Provoost, Pieter / Richlen, Mindy L / Smith, Juliette L / Solow, Andrew R / Trainer, Vera L

    Harmful algae

    2021  Volume 102, Page(s) 101975

    Abstract: Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are diverse phenomena involving multiple. species and classes of algae that occupy a broad range of habitats from lakes to oceans and produce a multiplicity of toxins or bioactive compounds that impact many different resources. ...

    Abstract Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are diverse phenomena involving multiple. species and classes of algae that occupy a broad range of habitats from lakes to oceans and produce a multiplicity of toxins or bioactive compounds that impact many different resources. Here, a review of the status of this complex array of marine HAB problems in the U.S. is presented, providing historical information and trends as well as future perspectives. The study relies on thirty years (1990-2019) of data in HAEDAT - the IOC-ICES-PICES Harmful Algal Event database, but also includes many other reports. At a qualitative level, the U.S. national HAB problem is far more extensive than was the case decades ago, with more toxic species and toxins to monitor, as well as a larger range of impacted resources and areas affected. Quantitatively, no significant trend is seen for paralytic shellfish toxin (PST) events over the study interval, though there is clear evidence of the expansion of the problem into new regions and the emergence of a species that produces PSTs in Florida - Pyrodinium bahamense. Amnesic shellfish toxin (AST) events have significantly increased in the U.S., with an overall pattern of frequent outbreaks on the West Coast, emerging, recurring outbreaks on the East Coast, and sporadic incidents in the Gulf of Mexico. Despite the long historical record of neurotoxic shellfish toxin (NST) events, no significant trend is observed over the past 30 years. The recent emergence of diarrhetic shellfish toxins (DSTs) in the U.S. began along the Gulf Coast in 2008 and expanded to the West and East Coasts, though no significant trend through time is seen since then. Ciguatoxin (CTX) events caused by Gambierdiscus dinoflagellates have long impacted tropical and subtropical locations in the U.S., but due to a lack of monitoring programs as well as under-reporting of illnesses, data on these events are not available for time series analysis. Geographic expansion of Gambierdiscus into temperate and non-endemic areas (e.g., northern Gulf of Mexico) is apparent, and fostered by ocean warming. HAB-related marine wildlife morbidity and mortality events appear to be increasing, with statistically significant increasing trends observed in marine mammal poisonings caused by ASTs along the coast of California and NSTs in Florida. Since their first occurrence in 1985 in New York, brown tides resulting from high-density blooms of Aureococcus have spread south to Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, while those caused by Aureoumbra have spread from the Gulf Coast to the east coast of Florida. Blooms of Margalefidinium polykrikoides occurred in four locations in the U.S. from 1921-2001 but have appeared in more than 15  U.S. estuaries since then, with ocean warming implicated as a causative factor. Numerous blooms of toxic cyanobacteria have been documented in all 50  U.S. states and the transport of cyanotoxins from freshwater systems into marine coastal waters is a recently identified and potentially significant threat to public and ecosystem health. Taken together, there is a significant increasing trend in all HAB events in HAEDAT over the 30-year study interval. Part of this observed HAB expansion simply reflects a better realization of the true or historic scale of the problem, long obscured by inadequate monitoring. Other contributing factors include the dispersion of species to new areas, the discovery of new HAB poisoning syndromes or impacts, and the stimulatory effects of human activities like nutrient pollution, aquaculture expansion, and ocean warming, among others. One result of this multifaceted expansion is that many regions of the U.S. now face a daunting diversity of species and toxins, representing a significant and growing challenge to resource managers and public health officials in terms of toxins, regions, and time intervals to monitor, and necessitating new approaches to monitoring and management. Mobilization of funding and resources for research, monitoring and management of HABs requires accurate information on the scale and nature of the national problem. HAEDAT and other databases can be of great value in this regard but efforts are needed to expand and sustain the collection of data regionally and nationally.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Ecosystem ; Florida ; Gulf of Mexico ; Harmful Algal Bloom ; Oceans and Seas ; United States ; Virginia
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-03
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2091119-1
    ISSN 1878-1470 ; 1568-9883
    ISSN (online) 1878-1470
    ISSN 1568-9883
    DOI 10.1016/j.hal.2021.101975
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  3. Article ; Online: Harmful algal blooms and their effects in coastal seas of Northern Europe.

    Karlson, Bengt / Andersen, Per / Arneborg, Lars / Cembella, Allan / Eikrem, Wenche / John, Uwe / West, Jennifer Joy / Klemm, Kerstin / Kobos, Justyna / Lehtinen, Sirpa / Lundholm, Nina / Mazur-Marzec, Hanna / Naustvoll, Lars / Poelman, Marnix / Provoost, Pieter / De Rijcke, Maarten / Suikkanen, Sanna

    Harmful algae

    2021  Volume 102, Page(s) 101989

    Abstract: Harmful algal blooms (HAB) are recurrent phenomena in northern Europe along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat-Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. These HABs have caused occasional massive losses for the aquaculture ... ...

    Abstract Harmful algal blooms (HAB) are recurrent phenomena in northern Europe along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat-Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. These HABs have caused occasional massive losses for the aquaculture industry and have chronically affected socioeconomic interests in several ways. This status review gives an overview of historical HAB events and summarises reports to the Harmful Algae Event Database from 1986 to the end of year 2019 and observations made in long term monitoring programmes of potentially harmful phytoplankton and of phycotoxins in bivalve shellfish. Major HAB taxa causing fish mortalities in the region include blooms of the prymnesiophyte Chrysochromulina leadbeateri in northern Norway in 1991 and 2019, resulting in huge economic losses for fish farmers. A bloom of the prymesiophyte Prymnesium polylepis (syn. Chrysochromulina polylepis) in the Kattegat-Skagerrak in 1988 was ecosystem disruptive. Blooms of the prymnesiophyte Phaeocystis spp. have caused accumulations of foam on beaches in the southwestern North Sea and Wadden Sea coasts and shellfish mortality has been linked to their occurrence. Mortality of shellfish linked to HAB events has been observed in estuarine waters associated with influx of water from the southern North Sea. The first bloom of the dictyochophyte genus Pseudochattonella was observed in 1998, and since then such blooms have been observed in high cell densities in spring causing fish mortalities some years. Dinoflagellates, primarily Dinophysis spp., intermittently yield concentrations of Diarrhetic Shellfish Toxins (DST) in blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, above regulatory limits along the coasts of Norway, Denmark and the Swedish west coast. On average, DST levels in shellfish have decreased along the Swedish and Norwegian Skagerrak coasts since approximately 2006, coinciding with a decrease in the cell abundance of D. acuta. Among dinoflagellates, Alexandrium species are the major source of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins (PST) in the region. PST concentrations above regulatory levels were rare in the Skagerrak-Kattegat during the three decadal review period, but frequent and often abundant findings of Alexandrium resting cysts in surface sediments indicate a high potential risk for blooms. PST levels often above regulatory limits along the west coast of Norway are associated with A. catenella (ribotype Group 1) as the main toxin producer. Other Alexandrium species, such as A. ostenfeldii and A. minutum, are capable of producing PST among some populations but are usually not associated with PSP events in the region. The cell abundance of A. pseudogonyaulax, a producer of the ichthyotoxin goniodomin (GD), has increased in the Skagerrak-Kattegat since 2010, and may constitute an emerging threat. The dinoflagellate Azadinium spp. have been unequivocally linked to the presence of azaspiracid toxins (AZT) responsible for Azaspiracid Shellfish Poisoning (AZP) in northern Europe. These toxins were detected in bivalve shellfish at concentrations above regulatory limits for the first time in Norway in blue mussels in 2005 and in Sweden in blue mussels and oysters (Ostrea edulis and Crassostrea gigas) in 2018. Certain members of the diatom genus Pseudo-nitzschia produce the neurotoxin domoic acid and analogs known as Amnesic Shellfish Toxins (AST). Blooms of Pseudo-nitzschia were common in the North Sea and the Skagerrak-Kattegat, but levels of AST in bivalve shellfish were rarely above regulatory limits during the review period. Summer cyanobacteria blooms in the Baltic Sea are a concern mainly for tourism by causing massive fouling of bathing water and beaches. Some of the cyanobacteria produce toxins, e.g. Nodularia spumigena, producer of nodularin, which may be a human health problem and cause occasional dog mortalities. Coastal and shelf sea regions in northern Europe provide a key supply of seafood, socioeconomic well-being and ecosystem services. Increasing anthropogenic influence and climate change create environmental stressors causing shifts in the biogeography and intensity of HABs. Continued monitoring of HAB and phycotoxins and the operation of historical databases such as HAEDAT provide not only an ongoing status report but also provide a way to interpret causes and mechanisms of HABs.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Dogs ; Ecosystem ; Europe ; Harmful Algal Bloom ; Nodularia ; Norway ; Oceans and Seas ; Sweden
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-03-06
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 2091119-1
    ISSN 1878-1470 ; 1568-9883
    ISSN (online) 1878-1470
    ISSN 1568-9883
    DOI 10.1016/j.hal.2021.101989
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  4. Article ; Online: The founding charter of the Omic Biodiversity Observation Network (Omic BON).

    Meyer, Raïssa / Davies, Neil / Pitz, Kathleen J / Meyer, Chris / Samuel, Robyn / Anderson, Jane / Appeltans, Ward / Barker, Katharine / Chavez, Francisco P / Duffy, J Emmett / Goodwin, Kelly D / Hudson, Maui / Hunter, Margaret E / Karstensen, Johannes / Laney, Christine M / Leinen, Margaret / Mabee, Paula / Macklin, James A / Muller-Karger, Frank /
    Pade, Nicolas / Pearlman, Jay / Phillips, Lori / Provoost, Pieter / Santi, Ioulia / Schigel, Dmitry / Schriml, Lynn M / Soccodato, Alice / Suominen, Saara / Thibault, Katherine M / Ung, Visotheary / van de Kamp, Jodie / Wallis, Elycia / Walls, Ramona / Buttigieg, Pier Luigi

    GigaScience

    2023  Volume 12

    Abstract: Omic BON is a thematic Biodiversity Observation Network under the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), focused on coordinating the observation of biomolecules in organisms and the environment. Our founding partners ... ...

    Abstract Omic BON is a thematic Biodiversity Observation Network under the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), focused on coordinating the observation of biomolecules in organisms and the environment. Our founding partners include representatives from national, regional, and global observing systems; standards organizations; and data and sample management infrastructures. By coordinating observing strategies, methods, and data flows, Omic BON will facilitate the co-creation of a global omics meta-observatory to generate actionable knowledge. Here, we present key elements of Omic BON's founding charter and first activities.
    MeSH term(s) Biodiversity ; Knowledge
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-26
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 2708999-X
    ISSN 2047-217X ; 2047-217X
    ISSN (online) 2047-217X
    ISSN 2047-217X
    DOI 10.1093/gigascience/giad068
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  5. Article ; Online: Aligning Standards Communities for Omics Biodiversity Data

    Meyer, Raïssa / Appeltans, Ward / Duncan, William / Dimitrova, Mariya / Gan, Yi-Ming / Stjernegaard Jeppesen, Thomas / Mungall, Christopher / Paul, Deborah / Provoost, Pieter / Robertson, Tim / Schriml, Lynn / Suominen, Saara / Walls, Ramona / Sweetlove, Maxime / Ung, Visotheary / Van de Putte, Anton / Wallis, Elycia / Wieczorek, John / Buttigieg, Pier Luigi

    Sustainable Darwin Core-MIxS Interoperability

    2023  

    Abstract: The standardization of data, encompassing both primary and contextual information (metadata), plays a pivotal role in facilitating data (re-)use, integration, and knowledge generation. However, the biodiversity and omics communities, converging on omics ... ...

    Abstract The standardization of data, encompassing both primary and contextual information (metadata), plays a pivotal role in facilitating data (re-)use, integration, and knowledge generation. However, the biodiversity and omics communities, converging on omics biodiversity data, have historically developed and adopted their own distinct standards, hindering effective (meta)data integration and collaboration. In response to this challenge, the Task Group (TG) for Sustainable DwC-MIxS Interoperability was established. Convening experts from the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) and the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) alongside external stakeholders, the TG aimed to promote sustainable interoperability between the Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS) and Darwin Core (DwC) specifications. To achieve this goal, the TG utilized the Simple Standard for Sharing Ontology Mappings (SSSOM) to create a comprehensive mapping of DwC keys to MIxS keys. This mapping, combined with the development of the MIxS-DwC extension, enables the incorporation of MIxS core terms into DwC-compliant metadata records, facilitating seamless data exchange between MIxS and DwC user communities. Through the implementation of this translation layer, data produced in either MIxS- or DwCcompliant formats can now be efficiently brokered, breaking down silos and fostering closer collaboration between the biodiversity and omics communities. To ensure its sustainability and lasting impact, TDWG and GSC have both signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on creating a continuous model to synchronize their standards. These achievements mark a significant step forward in enhancing data sharing and utilization across domains, thereby unlocking new opportunities for scientific discovery and advancement.
    Subject code 020
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-02
    Publisher Pensoft
    Publishing country de
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: Perceived global increase in algal blooms is attributable to intensified monitoring and emerging bloom impacts.

    Hallegraeff, Gustaaf M / Anderson, Donald M / Belin, Catherine / Bottein, Marie-Yasmine / Bresnan, Eileen / Chinain, Mireille / Enevoldsen, Henrik / Iwataki, Mitsunori / Karlson, Bengt / McKenzie, Cynthia H / Sunesen, Inés / Pitcher, Grant C / Provoost, Pieter / Richardson, Anthony / Schweibold, Laura / Tester, Patricia A / Trainer, Vera L / Yñiguez, Aletta T / Zingone, Adriana

    Communications earth & environment

    2021  Volume 2

    Abstract: Global trends in the occurrence, toxicity and risk posed by harmful algal blooms to natural systems, human health and coastal economies are poorly constrained, but are widely thought to be increasing due to climate change and nutrient pollution. Here, we ...

    Abstract Global trends in the occurrence, toxicity and risk posed by harmful algal blooms to natural systems, human health and coastal economies are poorly constrained, but are widely thought to be increasing due to climate change and nutrient pollution. Here, we conduct a statistical analysis on a global dataset extracted from the Harmful Algae Event Database and Ocean Biodiversity Information System for the period 1985-2018 to investigate temporal trends in the frequency and distribution of marine harmful algal blooms. We find no uniform global trend in the number of harmful algal events and their distribution over time, once data were adjusted for regional variations in monitoring effort. Varying and contrasting regional trends were driven by differences in bloom species, type and emergent impacts. Our findings suggest that intensified monitoring efforts associated with increased aquaculture production are responsible for the perceived increase in harmful algae events and that there is no empirical support for broad statements regarding increasing global trends. Instead, trends need to be considered regionally and at the species level.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-06-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2662-4435
    ISSN (online) 2662-4435
    DOI 10.1038/s43247-021-00178-8
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  7. Article ; Online: Harmful algal blooms and their effects in coastal seas of Northern Europe

    Karlson, Bengt / Andersen, Per / Arneborg, Lars / Cembella, Allan / Eikrem, Wenche / John, Uwe / West, Jennifer Joy / Klemm, Kerstin / Kobos, Justyna / Lehtinen, Sirpa / Lundholm, Nina / Mazur-Marzec, Hanna / Naustvoll, Lars / Poelman, Marnix / Provoost, Pieter / De Rijcke, Maarten / Suikkanen, Sanna

    Harmful Algae

    2021  Volume 102

    Abstract: Harmful algal blooms (HAB) are recurrent phenomena in northern Europe along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat-Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. These HABs have caused occasional massive losses for the aquaculture ... ...

    Abstract Harmful algal blooms (HAB) are recurrent phenomena in northern Europe along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat-Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. These HABs have caused occasional massive losses for the aquaculture industry and have chronically affected socioeconomic interests in several ways. This status review gives an overview of historical HAB events and summarises reports to the Harmful Algae Event Database from 1986 to the end of year 2019 and observations made in long term monitoring programmes of potentially harmful phytoplankton and of phycotoxins in bivalve shellfish. Major HAB taxa causing fish mortalities in the region include blooms of the prymnesiophyte Chrysochromulina leadbeateri in northern Norway in 1991 and 2019, resulting in huge economic losses for fish farmers. A bloom of the prymesiophyte Prymnesium polylepis (syn. Chrysochromulina polylepis) in the Kattegat-Skagerrak in 1988 was ecosystem disruptive. Blooms of the prymnesiophyte Phaeocystis spp. have caused accumulations of foam on beaches in the southwestern North Sea and Wadden Sea coasts and shellfish mortality has been linked to their occurrence. Mortality of shellfish linked to HAB events has been observed in estuarine waters associated with influx of water from the southern North Sea. The first bloom of the dictyochophyte genus Pseudochattonella was observed in 1998, and since then such blooms have been observed in high cell densities in spring causing fish mortalities some years. Dinoflagellates, primarily Dinophysis spp., intermittently yield concentrations of Diarrhetic Shellfish Toxins (DST) in blue mussels, Mytilus edulis, above regulatory limits along the coasts of Norway, Denmark and the Swedish west coast. On average, DST levels in shellfish have decreased along the Swedish and Norwegian Skagerrak coasts since approximately 2006, coinciding with a decrease in the cell abundance of D. acuta. Among dinoflagellates, Alexandrium species are the major source of Paralytic Shellfish Toxins (PST) in ...
    Keywords Aquaculture ; Bivalve shellfish ; Fish mortality ; Harmful algae ; Phycotoxins ; Phytoplankton
    Subject code 333
    Language English
    Publishing country nl
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 2091119-1
    ISSN 1878-1470 ; 1568-9883
    ISSN (online) 1878-1470
    ISSN 1568-9883
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  8. Article: Modelling benthic oxygen consumption and benthic-pelagic coupling at a shallow station in the southern North Sea

    Provoost, Pieter / Braeckman, Ulrike / Van Gansbeke, Dirk / Moodley, Leon / Soetaert, Karline / Middelburg, Jack J / Vanaverbeke, Jan

    Estuarine, coastal and shelf science. 2013 Mar. 20, v. 120

    2013  

    Abstract: A time-series of benthic oxygen consumption, water-column and sediment chlorophyll concentrations, and temperature in the southern North Sea was subjected to inverse modelling in order to study benthic-pelagic coupling in this coastal marine system. The ... ...

    Abstract A time-series of benthic oxygen consumption, water-column and sediment chlorophyll concentrations, and temperature in the southern North Sea was subjected to inverse modelling in order to study benthic-pelagic coupling in this coastal marine system. The application of a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) on a simple box model allowed deriving deposition rates and temperature-dependent remineralization rates of both phytopigments and bulk carbon, as well as estimates of uncertainty for each of these processes. Together with organic matter availability, temperature had an important effect on benthic respiration rates thus delaying remineralization of spring bloom material until the late summer when temperatures were at their highest. The sediment at our station clearly acts as a buffer, removing large quantities of nutrients from the pelagic system during the spring bloom and only slowly releasing them back into the water column as temperatures increase later during summer.
    Keywords Markov chain ; carbon ; chlorophyll ; models ; nutrients ; organic matter ; oxygen consumption ; respiratory rate ; sediments ; spring ; summer ; temperature ; uncertainty ; North Sea
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2013-0320
    Size p. 1-11.
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    ISSN 0272-7714
    DOI 10.1016/j.ecss.2013.01.008
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  9. Article ; Online: Temporal dynamics in a shallow coastal benthic food web: Insights from fatty acid biomarkers and their stable isotopes.

    Braeckman, Ulrike / Provoost, Pieter / Sabbe, Koen / Soetaert, Karline / Middelburg, Jack J / Vincx, Magda / Vanaverbeke, Jan

    Marine environmental research

    2015  Volume 108, Page(s) 55–68

    Abstract: We investigated the temporal variation of pelagic and benthic food sources in the diet of benthic taxa at a depositional site in the Southern Bight of the North Sea by means of fatty acid (FA) biomarkers and compound-specific stable isotope analysis ( ... ...

    Abstract We investigated the temporal variation of pelagic and benthic food sources in the diet of benthic taxa at a depositional site in the Southern Bight of the North Sea by means of fatty acid (FA) biomarkers and compound-specific stable isotope analysis (CSIA). The taxa were the non-selective deposit feeding nematodes (Sabatieria spp. and 'other nematodes'), and three dominant macrobenthic species: two true suspension-deposit feeders (the bivalve Abra alba and the tube dwelling polychaete Owenia fusiformis) and the suspected predatory mud-dwelling anemone Sagartia sp. These species make up on average 16% (Abra alba), 17% (Sagartia sp.) and 20% (Owenia fusiformis) of the biomass in the Abra alba-Kurtiella bidentata community in this area. Phytoplankton dynamics in the suspended particulate matter of the water column as inferred from cell counts, chlorophyll-a and organic carbon content were clearly visible in sediment and animal FA abundance as well, whereas phytodetritus dynamics in the sediment FA composition were less clear, probably due to patchy distribution or stripping of FA by macrofauna. Nematodes appeared to assimilate mainly Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs) from their sedimentary environment and were further non-selectively accumulating more (Sabatieria spp.) or less ('other nematodes') FA from the deposited phytodetritus. In contrast, Abra alba FA composition was consistent with a diatom-dominated diet and consumption of Phaeocystis was observed in Owenia fusiformis, whereas Sagartia sp. showed evidence of a predatory behaviour. While the total FA content in Owenia fusiformis remained constant throughout the year, Sagartia sp. doubled and Abra alba increased its FA level more than 10-fold in response to the organic matter deposition from the phytoplankton bloom. This leads to the conclusion that there is no resource partitioning between non-selective deposit feeding nematodes and the suspension-deposit feeding macrobenthic organisms, suggesting they belong to separate parts of the benthic food web.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Biomarkers/analysis ; Diet ; Fatty Acids/analysis ; Food Chain ; Geologic Sediments/analysis ; Invertebrates/chemistry ; Invertebrates/metabolism ; Invertebrates/physiology ; Isotopes/analysis ; North Sea
    Chemical Substances Biomarkers ; Fatty Acids ; Isotopes
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-07
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 1502505-6
    ISSN 1879-0291 ; 0141-1136
    ISSN (online) 1879-0291
    ISSN 0141-1136
    DOI 10.1016/j.marenvres.2015.04.010
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  10. Article ; Online: The founding charter of the Omic Biodiversity Observation Network (Omic BON)

    Meyer, Raïssa / Davies, Neil / Pitz, Kathleen J / Meyer, Chris / Samuel, Robyn / Anderson, Jane / Appeltans, Ward / Barker, Katharine / Chavez, Francisco P / Duffy, J Emmett / Goodwin, Kelly D / Hudson, Maui / Hunter, Margaret E / Karstensen, Johannes / Laney, Christine M / Leinen, Margaret / Mabee, Paula / Macklin, James A / Muller-Karger, Frank /
    Pade, Nicolas / Pearlman, Jay / Phillips, Lori / Provoost, Pieter / Santi, Ioulia / Schigel, Dmitry / Schriml, Lynn M / Soccodato, Alice / Suominen, Saara / Thibault, Katherine M / Ung, Visotheary / van de Kamp, Jodie / Wallis, Elycia / Walls, Ramona / Buttigieg, Pier Luigi

    2023  

    Abstract: Omic BON is a thematic Biodiversity Observation Network under the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), focused on coordinating the observation of biomolecules in organisms and the environment. Our founding partners ... ...

    Abstract Omic BON is a thematic Biodiversity Observation Network under the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), focused on coordinating the observation of biomolecules in organisms and the environment. Our founding partners include representatives from national, regional, and global observing systems; standards organizations; and data and sample management infrastructures. By coordinating observing strategies, methods, and data flows, Omic BON will facilitate the co-creation of a global omics meta-observatory to generate actionable knowledge. Here, we present key elements of Omic BON's founding charter and first activities.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-26
    Publisher Oxford University Press
    Publishing country de
    Document type Article ; Online
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