WG5 Marine Ecosystems Members Present Not present Linda Amaral - PDF document

WG5 Marine Ecosystems Members Present Not present Linda Amaral Zettler Pat Halpin Ward Appeltans Carlo Heip Patricio Bernal Brian Helmuth Peter Burkill Nicolas Hoepffner Francisco Chavez David Obura Mark Costello Katja Philippart Pedro Martinez-Arbizu Roland Pitcher Henry Ruhl Trevor Platt Isabel Sousa Pinto Louisa Wood Randy Kochevar Benefited from Ian Poiner, Ben Halpern, Robert Holt, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Sheila Vergara, Megan Morikawa Aichi Targets: all contribute directly to # 19; one directly to Target 9 (invasive species) and several to 11 (MPA planning).

Scope Product Lead or contact person By end 2012 1. Annual Global (CPR plankton) ocean Peter Burkill Open ocean, Ecological Status Report pelagic, Plankton By October 2013 2. Assessment of population time-series Anthony Richardson, All datasets and monitoring stations Carlos Duarte 3. Gaps maps: where there is and is not Ward Appeltans All ground-truth data for marine (OBIS) biodiversity over time ; by country and/or sea or region; by ecology 4. Global bacterial richness assessment Linda Amaral-Zettler Bacteria, map and link to ecosystem function Pelagic to and services 200m 5. Compendium of global environmental Henry Ruhl, Mark All, data layers (models) including future Costello, Pat Halpin, chlorophyll scenarios on a website VLIZ, IODE, i- Marine 6. Permanent ocean pelagic habitat Patricio Bernal, Peter Pelagic, features map Miller chlorophyll 7. Descriptions of ocean environmental Pat Halpin All and species data (and hotspots) that inform EBSA

By October 2014 8. Plan for how to monitor ocean biodiversity Francisco Chavez, All Ian Poiner, Henry Ruhl & WG 9. Future marine benthic biodiversity (spatial Henry Ruhl Benthic extent, biomass) fauna 10. Global map of marine ecosystems Mark Costello, All underpinned by environmental data using Zeenatul Basher, GEO Ecosystems approach, overlaid by MPA VLIZ & biogeography 11. World map of marine IAS occurrences and Sergej Olenin Coastal potential ranges IAS 12. Deep sea and open ocean biogeography Pedro Martinez Benthic fauna

GEO BON WG WG 5 link 1 genomics Marine microbial genetics (Linda) 2 monitoring EBV (Henry Ruhl) 3 Land ecosystems Marine ecosystem (Mark) 4 freshwater GWOS Coastal marine (Isabel) 6 Ecosystem services Marine (Patricio) 7 Modelling Marine environmental data (Henry, Mark) 8 Data integration OBIS (Ward) 9 Indicators Aichi Targets (marine product leaders)

TIME-TABLE January 2013 Finalise Products Mid 2013 Secure funding for products that need it February 2013 WG bimonthly conference calls begin October 2013 WG meeting in Europe March 2014 Contributions to GBO4 October 2014 WG meeting in China at World Conference on Marine Biodiversity November 2014 Contributions to CBD COP12 Website – with GEO BON? Request GEO to formally recognise national funders and institutions Funding 4 WG members to explore funding options for meetings and products Future Consider new members for succession planning, develop products, and ensure geographic coverage