PANABIO: a point-referenced PAN-Arctic data collection of benthic BIOtas

Profound environmental changes, such as drastic sea-ice decline, leave large-scale ecological footprints on the distribution and composition of marine biota in the Arctic. Currently, the impact of such stressors is not sufficiently understood due to the lack of pan-Arctic data that allow for estimat...

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Published in:Earth System Science Data
Main Authors: Piepenburg, Dieter, Brey, Thomas, Teschke, Katharina, Dannheim, Jennifer, Kloss, Paul, Rehage, Marianne, Hansen, Miriam L. S., Kraan, Casper
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2024
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Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Svalbard
Barents Sea
Norwegian Sea
Bering Sea
Laptev Sea
Okhotsk
Kara Sea
Chukchi Sea
White Sea
Greenland
East Siberian Sea
Beaufort Sea
Canadian Archipelago
Chukchi
Greenland Sea
laptev
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1177-2024
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Summary:Profound environmental changes, such as drastic sea-ice decline, leave large-scale ecological footprints on the distribution and composition of marine biota in the Arctic. Currently, the impact of such stressors is not sufficiently understood due to the lack of pan-Arctic data that allow for estimating ecological baselines as well as modelling current and forecast potential changes in benthic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Here, we introduce the PAN-Arctic data collection of benthic BIOtas (PANABIO) and discuss its timeliness, potential, and details of its further development. The data collection contains individual datasets with records (presence, counts, abundance, or biomass) of benthic fauna, usually at genus level or species level, which were identified in field samples obtained at point-referenced locations (stations) by means of grabs, towed gear, or seabed imaging. The data cover the entire pan-Arctic realm, i.e. the central Arctic Ocean, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Laptev Sea, Kara Sea, Barents Sea (including the White Sea), Svalbard waters, Greenland Sea, Norwegian Sea, Canadian Archipelago, Beaufort Sea, and Bering Sea as well as some adjacent sub-Arctic regions (Sea of Japan, Gulf of Okhotsk). Currently (as of 14 December 2023), PANABIO includes 27 datasets with a total of 126 388 records of 2978 taxa collected from 11 555 samples taken at 10 596 stations during 1095 cruises between 1800 and 2014. These numbers will increase with more data becoming available over time through contributions from PANABIO users. The data collection is available in a PostgreSQL-based data warehouse that can be accessed and queried through an open-access front-end web service at https://critterbase.awi.de/panabio (last access: 27 February 2024). A snapshot of the current data collection and its 27 individual datasets is also available from the data publisher PANGAEA (https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.963640, Piepenburg et al., 2023).

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