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EMODnet Biology Blog

“ Marine biology data product - the story behind the product”

The workflows that are used to create the products within the Atlas of Marine Life are documented and available – they can be reused and anyone can further build upon the products for any purpose. For each data product, a documentation file based on a Markdown document, will be made available. All code is published on the EMODnet Gitub. Feedback can be posted using #emodnetbiology in Twitter

April 16, 2021
Physico-chemical and commercial shellfish species data to illustrate potential vulnerability to ocean acidification Directory structure
Ocean acidification (OA) has become one of the most studied topics in the last 15 years. The majority of the research published to date seems to suggest that some of the effects of ocean acidification could have dramatic consequences for ecosystems. The emerging evidence suggests that ocean acidification will act differently across species and there may be direct and indirect effects for ecosystems. The information gathered in this ‘proof of concept’ is to showcase what datasets are available and what is possible to distil from the combination of information. The time-series provided for pH helps to describe what are the current environmental conditions and variability of an area.
April 14, 2021
Probability maps for different phytoplankton species in the North Sea
Probability of occurrence of different phytoplankton species in the North Sea. This product was created using DIVAnd, an interpolation method that takes into account several environmental variables and physical coastlines.
April 14, 2021
Presence/Absence maps of phytoplankton in the Greater North Sea
The project aims to produce comprehensive data product of the occurence and absence of (phyto)plankton species. As a basis, data from EMODnet Biology are used. The selection of relevant datasets is optimized in order to find all planktonic species, and exclude all species that are not planktonic. The occurences from EMODnet Biology were complemenented with absence data assuming fixed species lists within each dataset and year. The products are presented as maps of the distribution of the 100 most common species of (phyto)plankton in the Greater North Sea.
April 13, 2021
Probability maps for different benthos species in the North Sea

Probability of occurrence of different macroinvertebrate benthic species in the North Sea. This product was created using DIVAnd, an interpolation method that takes into account several environmental variables and physical coastlines.

April 09, 2021
Summary presence/absence maps of macro-endobenthos in the greater North Sea, based on nearly 100,000 samples from 65 assembled monitoring data sets.
Estimating absences of benthic species from Presence-Only data retrieved from EMODnet-Biology and creating presence/absence maps.
April 06, 2021
Benthic occurrences, habitat maps, and species traits
Linking occurrences of benthic invertebrates to the seabed habitats.
March 31, 2021
‘Proof of concept’ product: Fraction of mixoplankton (photo-phagotrophic) species in the Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas
Fraction of mixoplankton in the North and Celtic seas
March 01, 2021
Presence/Absence maps of phytoplankton in the Greater Baltic Sea
Raster maps with the probability of occurrence of 331 phytoplankton species in the Greater Baltic Sea, calculated from a Presence/Absence dataset reconstructed from a selection of data available in EMODnet-Biology.
February 08, 2021
Data product numerical abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates in North Sea and Baltic Sea
The aim of this product is to underly analysis of such characteristics as living modes, bioturbation potential, role in food webs or indicators for environmental changes.
January 25, 2021
EMODnetWFS: Access EMODnet Web Feature Service data through R
The package was designed to make EMODnet vector data layers easily accessible in R.
May 10, 2019
Seagrass, Macroalgae and Live coral from EMODnet Seabed Habitats

This data products displays seagrass, macroalgae and live coral from the existing library of habitat maps on the EMODnet Seabed Habitats map viewer

December 18, 2018
Trend of algal toxicity and phytoplankton taxon richness along the French coast
This product provides gridded maps of the phytoplankton taxon richness and algae toxicity along the French coast between 1995 and 2013.
December 17, 2018
Phytoplankton community analysis in the Middle Adriatic
A workflow and application written in R (Shiny), that gives a multivariate representation of phytoplankton community in the Middle Adriatic.
December 16, 2018
Use of EMODNET Biology Data for invasive species policies. What can we learn?
This analysis explores the possibilities of EMODnet data for assisting in ballast water regulations.
December 14, 2018
Neural network modelling of Baltic zooplankton abundances
This data products calculates species abundances for 40 zooplankton species using neural networks and DIVAnd
December 13, 2018
Marine birds, mammals and reptiles around the Azores
This product provides abundance maps of the loggerhead turtle, several marine mammals and two marine bird species around the Azores.
December 06, 2018
Abundance maps of marine birds and mammals in the North Sea

This product provides abundance maps of marine birds and mammals in the North Sea compiled by data from the ESAS database.

December 06, 2018
Invasive species in the Baltic Sea
This data product shows the temporal trend of invasive species Marenzelleria in the Baltic Sea
December 05, 2018
Thermal affinities for European marine species
This data product shows how to derive, summarise and visualise thermal affinities for European marine species using species occurrence data from (Eur)OBIS and EMODnet Biology.
December 05, 2018
Distribution of fish living modes in European seas
This product shows the distributions of the main functional types and four main living modes of benthic and bentho-pelagic fish
December 05, 2018
Distribution of benthic macroinvertebrate living modes in European seas
This data product displays the main functional types and living modes of benthic macroinvertebrates.
October 02, 2018
Trends in abundance of fish species in the North Sea

This product shows the trends in abundance of fish species (cod, plaice, herring, anchovy, sandeel, mackerel, sprot) in the North Sea.

September 24, 2018
Long term zooplankton time series analysis from Villefranche, Western Mediterranean
This product demonstrates how to analyze a long term time series of zooplankton data in R
September 24, 2018
Phytoplankton community analysis in the Northern Adriatic
A workflow and application written in R (Shiny), that gives a multivariate representation of phytoplankton community in the LTER site in the Northern Adriatic.
September 22, 2016
An operational zooplankton data service
A set of gridded map layers showing the average abundance of the 6 most abundant Copepods&nbsp; (<em>Calanus h., Calanus f., Acartia spp, Oithona s., Temora l. , Metridia l. </em>) species in the North Atlantic Ocean
 

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