Global habitat suitability of deep-water Antipatharia
Global habitat suitability of deep-water Antipatharia
Antipatharia are a diverse group of corals with many species found in deep water. Many Antipatharia are habitat for associates, have extreme longevity and some species can occur beyond 8500 m depth. As they are major constituents of 'coral gardens', which are Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), knowledge of their distribution and environmental requirements is an important pre-requisite for informed conservation planning particularly where the expense and difficulty of deep-sea sampling prohibits comprehensive surveys. This study uses a global database of Antipatharia distribution data to perform habitat suitability modelling using the Maxent methodology to estimate the global extent of black coral habitat suitability. The model of habitat suitability is driven by temperature but there is notable influence from other variables of topography, surface productivity and oxygen levels. This data set has been used as one of the data inputs in the Atlantic REMP project. This project, funded by the European Union, worked together with stakeholders to produce a draft Regional Environmental Management Plan (REMP) for the Area in the North Atlantic, with a focus on the polymetallic sulphide deposits of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge which are of interest for deep-sea mining. There was close collaboration with the International Seabed Authority (ISA) and a consortium of scientific organisations. Marine data from multiple data services underpinned the environmental management plan development. A selection of the data sets is included in EMODnet Ingestion for wider distribution.
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GB300022
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- 2015-12-13
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- 685DE707-1E63-4D42-A394-C2A1B0DE5C94
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
Chris Yesson
chris.yesson@ioz.ac chris.yesson@ioz.ac.uk
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Yesson, Chris; Bedford, Faye; Rogers, Alex David; Taylor, Michelle L (2016): Global habitat suitability of deep-water Antipatharia. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856033, Supplement to: Yesson, C et al. (2015): The global distribution of deep-water Antipatharia habitat. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.12.004
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Yesson, Chris; Bedford, Faye; Rogers, Alex David; Taylor, Michelle L
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
Chris Yesson
chris.yesson@ioz.ac chris.yesson@ioz.ac.uk
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- Irregular
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Habitats and biotopes
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Viewable, Downloadable
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- Environment
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Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.5.1.7333
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms gb300022
OGC:WCS
https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wcs gb300022
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/GB300022.zip EMODnet Seabed Habitats download
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- Yes
- Statement
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Antipatharia are a diverse group of corals with many species found in deep water. Many Antipatharia are habitat for associates, have extreme longevity and some species can occur beyond 8500 m depth. As they are major constituents of?coral gardensÔÇÖ, which are Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs), knowledge of their distribution and environmental requirements is an important pre-requisite for informed conservation planning particularly where the expense and difficulty of deep-sea sampling prohibits comprehensive surveys.
This study uses a global database of Antipatharia distribution data to perform habitat suitability modelling using the Maxent methodology to estimate the global extent of black coral habitat suitability. The model of habitat suitability is driven by temperature but there is notable influence from other variables of topography, surface productivity and oxygen levels.
This model can be used to predict areas of suitable habitat, which can be useful for conservation planning. The global distribution of Antipatharia habitat suitability shows a marked contrast with the distribution of specimen observations, indicating that many potentially suitable areas have not been sampled, and that sampling effort has been disproportionate to shallow, accessible areas inside marine protected areas (MPAs). Although 25% of Antipatharia observations are located in MPAs, only 7-8% of predicted suitable habitat is protected, which is short of the Convention on Biological Diversity target to protect 10% of ocean habitats by 2020.
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dataset
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INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
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V. 1.2
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London
Chris Yesson
chris.yesson@ioz.ac chris.yesson@ioz.ac.uk
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