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http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=rams
The Register of Antarctic Marine Species
Bruno
Danis
ANTABIF
Projet manager
29, rue Vautier
Brussels
1000
BE
bruno.danis@gmail.com
http://www.biodiversity.aq
Bruno
Danis
ANTABIF
Projet manager
29, rue Vautier
Brussels
1000
BE
bruno.danis@gmail.com
http://www.biodiversity.aq
Bruno
Danis
bruno.danis@antabif.be
user
2017-10-06
eng
The objective of RAMS is to compile and manage an authoritative taxonomic list of species occurring in the Antarctic marine environment, for establishing a standard reference for marine biodiversity research, conservation and sustainable management.
The taxonomic scope of RAMS covers Antarctic species from the three realms of the Southern Ocean: the sea floor (meio-, macro- and megazoobenthos; micro- and macrophytobenthos), the water column (phytoplankton, zooplankton, nekton) and the sea-ice.
A series of preliminary species lists of Antarctic marine invertebrates, mostly for macrobenthic groups, were compiled by Andrew Clarke and Nadine Johnston of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), with funding from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and British Antarctic Survey. These lists have been or are being checked and updated by taxonomic experts.
A series of preliminary species lists of Antarctic marine invertebrates, mostly for macrobenthic groups, were compiled by Andrew Clarke and Nadine Johnston of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), with funding from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and British Antarctic Survey. These lists have been or are being checked and updated by taxonomic experts.
RAMS is managed by an Editorial Board comprising an Executive Committee and associate Taxonomic Editors. The RAMS Executive Committee plays an advising role in the development of RAMS and proposes Taxonomic Editors. It links with the SCAR-MarBIN International Steering Committee. To allow RAMS to be as exhaustive and authoritative as possible, the role of the network of Taxonomic Editors is crucial. These Taxonomic Editors are world experts on the taxonomy of their relevant taxa and are in charge of the content and quality control of data for their specific group.
Metadata
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
marine, harvested by iOBIS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
The RAMS “area of interest” is the Southern Ocean in its wide sense, as used by oceanographers (e.g. Deacon 1984, Tréguer & Jacques 1992, Longhurst 1998, Rintoul 2007).
The priority however is given to the Antarctic region (Southern Ocean s.s. or “Antarctic Ocean”), i.e. the water masses extending south of the Polar Front (formerly known as the Antarctic Convergence) to the coasts of the Antarctic continent. All taxa occurring south of the Polar Front should be included in RAMS.
The sub-Antarctic region, here defined as the expanses of water extending from the Polar Front in the south to the Subtropical front in the north (see precisions below), is being progressively covered as well.
The location of the various hydrographic fronts of the Southern Ocean is based on Orsi et al. (1995), as modified by Moore et al. (1999) for the location of Antarctic Polar Front south of Kerguelen Islands on the Kerguelen Plateau.
See AAD Southern Ocean maps 2006 (with location of fronts according to Orsi et al. 1995), downloadable as pdf’s at:
http://www.scarmarbin.be/documents/sthn_ocean_west_300dpi_13276.pdf
http://www.scarmarbin.be/documents/sthn_ocean_east_300dpi_13277.pdf
ANTARCTIC ZONE (Southern Ocean s.s. = Antarctic Ocean):
- True northern limit: Antarctic Polar Front (or Antarctic Convergence, 48°S to 63°S, convenient average limit: 55°S).
- Operational northern limits for data trawling (see map below):
South Atlantic: - Between 60°W and 50°W: 57°S
- Between 50°W and 30°E: 50°S (same limits as CCAMLR)
Indian Ocean: - Between 30°E and 80°E: 50°S
- Between 80°E and 150°E: 55°S (same limits as CCAMLR)
South Pacific: - Between 150°E and 60°W: 60°S (same limits as CCAMLR)
SUB-ANTARCTIC ZONE
- True southern limit: the Antarctic Polar Front.
- True northern limit: the northernmost limit of the Southern Ocean s.l., i.e. the northern limit of the extension of the sub-Antarctic water masses, which corresponds to the (nearly) circumpolar sub-Tropical Front (30°S to 47°S, convenient average limit: 43°S).
In addition to the open ocean zones defined by hydrographic fronts, the SCAR-MarBIN “area of interest” has also to take into account the sub-Antarctic coastal zones, in particular in southern South America (i.e. the sub-Antarctic Magellanic biogeographic province; see e.g. Boltovskoy et al. 1999; Lopez Gappa et al. 2006; De Broyer et al. 2007) and the various islands of the sub-Antarctic region (e.g. the New Zealand sub-Antarctic islands such as The Snares, Antipodes and Bounty; see e.g. Knox 1987).
- Operational northern limits for data trawling (see map below):
South Atlantic and Indian Ocean: - Between 65°W and 140°E: 43°S
Pacific Ocean: - Between 140°E and 176°W: 48°S
- Between 176°W and 80°W: 45°S
- Between 80°W and 72°W: 41°S
Shapefiles for the Area of Interest (AoI) can be downloaded from http://share.biodiversity.aq/Atlas/Resources/Geographic_Scope/Shapefiles/
A picture of the RAMS AoI is visible at http://share.biodiversity.aq/Atlas/Resources/Geographic_Scope/Shapefiles/ATLAS-AoI.png
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The taxonomic scope of RAMS covers Antarctic species from the three realms of the Southern Ocean: the sea floor (meio-, macro- and megazoobenthos; micro- and macrophytobenthos), the water column (phytoplankton, zooplankton, nekton) and the sea-ice.
Animalia
Acanthocephala
Annelida
Clitellata
Hirudinea
Euhirudinea
Arhynchobdellida
Hirudinidae
Oligochaeta
Polychaeta
Canalipalpata
Sabellida
Siboglinidae
Arthropoda
Chelicerata
Arachnida
Acarina
Prostigmata
Halacaroidea
Halacaridae
Pycnogonida
Crustacea
Malacostraca
Eumalacostraca
Eucarida
Decapoda
Euphausiacea
Peracarida
Amphipoda
Hyperiidea
Cumacea
Isopoda
Lophogastrida
Mysida
Tanaidacea
Phyllocarida
Leptostraca
Copepoda
Neocopepoda
Podoplea
Harpacticoida
Ostracoda
Myodocopa
Halocyprida
Myodocopida
Podocopa
Podocopida
Brachiopoda
Bryozoa
Cephalorhyncha
Kinorhyncha
Chaetognatha
Chordata
Tunicata
Appendicularia
Thaliacea
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Pisces
Tetrapoda
Aves
Mammalia
Theria
Carnivora
Caniformia
Pinnipedia
Cetartiodactyla
Cetancodonta
Cetacea
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Hexacorallia
Hydrozoa
Scyphozoa
Ctenophora
Echinodermata
Asterozoa
Asteroidea
Ophiuroidea
Crinozoa
Crinoidea
Echinozoa
Echinoidea
Holothuroidea
Echiura
Mollusca
Aculifera
Aplacophora
Bivalvia
Cephalopoda
Gastropoda
Heterobranchia
Opisthobranchia
Monoplacophora
Polyplacophora
Scaphopoda
Myxozoa
Nematoda
Nemertea
Platyhelminthes
Cestoda
Monogenea
Trematoda
Digenea
Turbellaria
Porifera
Sipuncula
Bacteria
Chromista
Harosa
Heterokonta
Ochrophyta
Khakista
Bacillariophyceae
Rhizaria
Foraminifera
Plantae
Biliphyta
Rhodophyta
Viridaeplantae
Chlorophyta
Protozoa
Phaeophyta
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Bruno
Danis
ANTABIF
Projet manager
29, rue Vautier
Brussels
1000
BE
bruno.danis@gmail.com
http://www.biodiversity.aq
2012-03-21T11:38:31.634+01:00
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