SOMBASE BIOCONSTRUCTORS

Occurrence
Latest version published by British Antarctic Survey on Aug 5, 2024 British Antarctic Survey
Publication date:
5 August 2024
Published by:
British Antarctic Survey
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Large sessile habitat-forming organisms such as sponges, corals, bryozoans and hydroids play a crucial role in the structure of Antarctic marine communities and enhance the local biodiversity. Not only are there many species of these groups found in the Antarctic (387 sponges, 141 corals, 320 bryozoans and 337 hydroids) but they also form vital habitats for countless other organisms. The habitats formed by these megafaunal organisms are increasingly being recognized as both vulnerable and important ecosystems. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) adopted a proposal to declare two areas of the Southern Ocean as Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs). Both areas proposed are highly biodiverse, particularly with respect to habitat-forming hydrocorals, sponges and associated fauna.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 28,799 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

British Antarctic Survey. SOMBASE BIOCONSTRUCTORS. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/y8psoy accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-07-31.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is British Antarctic Survey. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7b361b5a-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  British Antarctic Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Network.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Huw Griffiths
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
British Antarctic Survey
GB
Yi-Ming Gan
  • Point Of Contact
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
BE

Geographic Coverage

most of the records are within the Southern Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-78.467, -180], North East [72.236, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Bryozoa, Cnidaria
Class Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, Octocorallia, Hexacorallia, Cheilostomata
Family Actinostolidae, Primnoidae, Lafoeidae, Alcyoniidae, Acanthogorgiidae, Adeonidae

Bibliographic Citations

  1. GRIFFITHS, H.J., LINSE, K. & CRAME, J.A. 2003. SOMBASE – Southern Ocean Mollusc Database: A tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and ecology. Organisms Diversity and Evolution. 3, 207–213.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.15468/y8psoy
11530
7b361b5a-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=bas_sombase-bioconstructors