A Global Plankton Database: An Inventory and Data From the Former Soviet Union Expeditions

全球浮游生物数据库：前苏联探险的清单和数据

• 批准号: 0437886
• 负责人: Sergey Piontkovski
• 金额: $ 32.47万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-02-15 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0437886&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Plankton; Database; Inventory; Data

A GLOBAL PLANKTON DATABASE: AN INVENTORY AND DATA FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION EXPEDITIONS Prof. Sergey Piontkovski (Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University) Total Proposed Cost: $324,689. Project duration: 01/15/05-01/14/07.Core international projects dealing with the ocean have emphasized an urgent need for information on the impact of climate change on species diversity and on the development of efforts to deal with this impact. In order to assess this impact, a global database of historical plankton community composition is needed. The objective of the proposed study is to develop a plankton database of over 22,000 stations sampled during the Former Soviet Union (FSU) oceanographic expeditions. This database will contain 22 expeditions to the Atlantic Ocean and over 30 expeditions to the enclosed seas of the Atlantic Ocean, including over 30 years of sampling in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and the Indian Ocean. At present, there is a lack of knowledge on the interannual climate-related variability of zooplankton communities of these regions due to the absence of appropriate databases. The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the dominant mode of atmospheric fluctuations over eastern North America, the northern Atlantic Ocean and Europe. Therefore, one of the issues that need to be addressed through data synthesis is the evaluation of interannual patterns in species abundance and species diversity over these regions in regard to the NAO. The intellectual merit of this proposed activity is that for the first time ever a universal plankton database, based on FSU data previously unavailable to the scientific community, will be made readily available on the web and on compact disks. From the database created, the project team will also investigate the ecological role of the NAO in interannual variations of the abundance of key zooplankton species along the zonal array of the NAO influence (from the western side of the Atlantic Ocean to its eastern side, and through the enclosed seas of the Mediterranean basin to the Arabian Sea). In terms of the broader impacts, the data compiled will be added to the World Ocean Database, which currently has no coverage in these key regions. Future research on biodiversity on the global scale may be expected to benefit greatly from the detailed taxonomic analyses of phytoplankton and zooplankton that will comprise a major portion of the database. This database will advance the teaching of marine sciences by making available unique data collected over the 30 years. Scientific cooperation between the Stony Brook University (SBU) and the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas would contribute to the implementation phase of the US-Ukraine Economic Cooperation Agreement, which deals with scientific cooperation issues as well. Through the involvement of graduate students and consultants from various institutions, the project broadens the SBU infrastructure for research and education. It provides salary support and/or research opportunities for graduate students and research faculty.

全球浮游生物数据库：前苏联探险队的一个实验室和数据谢尔盖·皮昂科夫斯基教授（斯托尼布鲁克大学海洋科学研究中心）总费用：324689美元。项目期限：2005年1月15日至2007年1月14日，涉及海洋的核心国际项目强调迫切需要有关气候变化对物种多样性的影响以及应对这种影响的努力的信息。 为了评估这种影响，需要建立一个历史浮游生物群落组成的全球数据库。拟议研究的目的是建立一个浮游生物数据库，其中包括前苏联海洋考察期间取样的22 000多个站点。 该数据库将包含22次大西洋考察和30多次大西洋封闭海域考察，包括30多年来在地中海、黑海、里海、咸海和印度洋的取样。目前，由于缺乏适当的数据库，对这些地区浮游动物群落与气候有关的年际变化缺乏了解。北大西洋涛动（NAO）是北美洲东部、北方大西洋和欧洲上空大气波动的主要模态。因此，需要通过数据综合解决的问题之一是评估这些地区与NAO相关的物种丰度和物种多样性的年际模式。 这一拟议活动的知识价值在于，将首次在网上和光盘上随时提供一个以科学界以前无法获得的前苏联数据为基础的通用浮游生物数据库。项目小组还将利用所建立的数据库，调查北大西洋涛动在主要浮游动物物种丰度年际变化中的生态作用，沿着北大西洋涛动影响的带状排列（从大西洋西侧到东侧，并通过地中海盆地的封闭海到阿拉伯海）。就更广泛的影响而言，汇编的数据将被添加到世界海洋数据库，该数据库目前没有覆盖这些关键区域。对浮游植物和浮游动物的详细分类分析将构成数据库的主要部分，预计今后在全球范围内进行的生物多样性研究将大大受益。该数据库将提供30年来收集的独特数据，从而推动海洋科学教学。斯托尼布鲁克大学与南部海洋生物研究所之间的科学合作将有助于《美国-乌克兰经济合作协定》的执行阶段，该协定也涉及科学合作问题。通过来自各机构的研究生和顾问的参与，该项目扩大了SBU的研究和教育基础设施。它为研究生和研究人员提供工资支持和/或研究机会。