A perspective on the Census of marine life. The role of natural history institutions for this programme |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Biological and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;2. Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Pisa, Via Derna 1, I-56126 Pisa, Italy;3. Laboratory of Coastal Biodiversity, Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Rua dos Bragas 289, 4050-123 Porto, Portugal;4. Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St. Andrews, East Sands, Scotland KY16 8LB, United Kingdom;5. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 6, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, Place Georges Teissier BP 74, 29682 Roscoff Cedex, France;6. CNRS, UMR 7144, Station Biologique de Roscoff, 29682 Roscoff Cedex, France;7. Laboratorio Zoologia e Biologia Marina, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università di Lecce, CoNISMa, 73100 Lecce, Italy;8. Estonian Marine Institute, Department of Marine Biology, University of Tartu, Mäealuse 14, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia;9. The Marine Biological Association of the UK, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, United Kingdom;10. Environmental and Marine Biology, Department of Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Artillerigatan 6, 20520 Åbo, Finland;11. Novia University of Applied Sciences, Raseborgsvägen 9, FI-10600 Ekenäs, Finland;12. Section Functional Ecology, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Marine Station, Kurpromenade 201, 27498 Helgoland, Germany;13. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, West Hoe, Plymouth PL1 3DH, United Kingdom;14. Université Lille Nord de France, Université Lille 1, CNRS UMR LOG 8187, Laboratoire Océanologie et Géosciences, 62930 Wimereux, France |
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| Abstract: | The Census of marine life programme (CoML) is expected to generate a large amount of information on the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine communities, many of them new or poorly known. Institutions such as natural history museums can play a crucial role in providing the necessary tools to allow the CoML to advance knowledge in the fields of marine systematics and biogeography. These institutions can contribute taxonomic expertise to provide quality-controlled identifications of species; specimen collections to allow for cross-checking of occurrences and a historical context for new data; information, both paper and electronic, on taxonomy, ecology and other topics to enable researchers to review past work; education opportunities to inform the public about the results of current and past research on the marine world. Challenges for these institutions in the future include the recruitment, training, and retention of taxonomic experts, development of advanced molecular techniques for more reliable and faster species identification in certain groups, and integration of expertise and other taxonomic resources into research on scientific processes from start to finish. |
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