Accelerating ocean species discovery and laying the foundations for the future of marine biodiversity research and monitoring

Frontiers in Marine Science

Marine Science

Harriet Harden-Davies¹  Tim Wilhelm Nattkemper²  Paul Hebert³  Jeff A. Ardron⁴  Punyasloke Bhadury⁵  Karen Osborn⁶  Judith Gobin⁷  Hawis Madduppa⁸  Ana Carolina de Azevedo Mazzuco⁹  Daniela Zeppilli^1,10  Dawn J. Wright^1,11  Pier-Luigi Buttigieg^1,12  Mika Odido^1,13  Maila Guilhon^1,14  Miranda Lowe^1,15  Adrian Glover^1,15  Muriel Rabone^1,15  Suzanne Williams^1,15  Claudia Delgado^1,16  Tim O’Hara^1,17  Anna McCallum^1,17  Nicholas J. Bax^1,18  Sandy MacIntyre^1,19  Lisa Hynes^1,19  Oliver Steeds^1,19  Lucy Woodall^2,20  Pieter Provoost^2,21  Hannah Appiah-Madson^2,22  Daniel L. Distel^2,22  Lucy Scott^2,23  Olivier De Clerck^2,24  Shannon Hampton^2,25  Alex David Rogers^2,26  Eva Ramirez-Llodra^2,26  Angelika Brandt^2,27  Angelique Pouponneau^2,28  Kerry Jennifer Sink^2,29  Chris McOwen^3,30  Lauren V. Weatherdon^3,30  Daniela Turk^3,30  Thomas Wernberg^3,31  Hiromi Kayama Watanabe^3,32 

[1] Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia;Biodata Mining Group, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany;Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada;Commonwealth Secretariat, Marlborough House, London, United Kingdom;Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education And Research, Kolkata, India;Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, United States;Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States;Department of Life Sciences, The University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago;Department of Marine Science and Technology, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia;Department of Oceanography, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória-Espírito Santo, Brazil;Département Ressources Physiques et Écosystèmes de Fond de Mer, Ifremer, Centre de Bretagne, Plouzané, France;Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA, United States;Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany;Research Institute for Sustainability, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany;Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission’s Sub Commission for Africa & The Adjacent Island States (IOCAFRICA), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Regional Office for Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya;Laboratório de Manejo, Ecologia e Conservação Marinha, Departamento de Oceanografia Biológica, Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil;Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom;Marine Biology Research Group, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium;Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;National Environmental Science Program Marine Biodiversity Hub, Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia;Nekton Foundation, Begbroke Science Park, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom;Nekton Foundation, Begbroke Science Park, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom;Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom;Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, United Kingdom;Ocean Biodiversity Information System, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), IOC Project Office for International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), Oostende, Belgium;Ocean Genome Legacy, Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA, United States;Ocean InfoHub, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) IOC Project Office for International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), Oostende, Belgium;Phycology Research Group and Center for Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;RIFS Potsdam, Research Institute for Sustainability, Potsdam, Germany;Research Expedition Vessel (REV) Ocean, Lysaker, Norway;Nekton Foundation, Begbroke Science Park, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom;Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main and Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany;SeyCCAT, Seychelles’ Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust, Victoria, Seychelles;South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Claremont, South Africa;United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), Cambridge, United Kingdom;University of Western Australia, Oceans Institute & School of Biological Sciences, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia;X-Star, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan;

关键词: biodiversity;    integrated taxonomy;    biodiversity crisis;    capacity development;    ocean literacy;    species discovery;    DNA barcoding;    cybertaxonomy;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmars.2023.1224471

 received in 2023-05-17, accepted in 2023-09-07,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Ocean Census is a new Large-Scale Strategic Science Mission aimed at accelerating the discovery and description of marine species. This mission addresses the knowledge gap of the diversity and distribution of marine life whereby of an estimated 1 million to 2 million species of marine life between 75% to 90% remain undescribed to date. Without improved knowledge of marine biodiversity, tackling the decline and eventual extinction of many marine species will not be possible. The marine biota has evolved over 4 billion years and includes many branches of the tree of life that do not exist on land or in freshwater. Understanding what is in the ocean and where it lives is fundamental science, which is required to understand how the ocean works, the direct and indirect benefits it provides to society and how human impacts can be reduced and managed to ensure marine ecosystems remain healthy. We describe a strategy to accelerate the rate of ocean species discovery by: 1) employing consistent standards for digitisation of species data to broaden access to biodiversity knowledge and enabling cybertaxonomy; 2) establishing new working practices and adopting advanced technologies to accelerate taxonomy; 3) building the capacity of stakeholders to undertake taxonomic and biodiversity research and capacity development, especially targeted at low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) so they can better assess and manage life in their waters and contribute to global biodiversity knowledge; and 4) increasing observational coverage on dedicated expeditions. Ocean Census, is conceived as a global open network of scientists anchored by Biodiversity Centres in developed countries and LMICs. Through a collaborative approach, including co-production of science with LMICs, and by working with funding partners, Ocean Census will focus and grow current efforts to discover ocean life globally, and permanently transform our ability to document, describe and safeguard marine species.

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Copyright © 2023 Rogers, Appiah-Madson, Ardron, Bax, Bhadury, Brandt, Buttigieg, De Clerck, Delgado, Distel, Glover, Gobin, Guilhon, Hampton, Harden-Davies, Hebert, Hynes, Lowe, MacIntyre, Madduppa, Mazzuco, McCallum, McOwen, Nattkemper, Odido, O’Hara, Osborn, Pouponneau, Provoost, Rabone, Ramirez-Llodra, Scott, Sink, Turk, Watanabe, Weatherdon, Wernberg, Williams, Woodall, Wright, Zeppilli and Steeds