Integrating biodiversity and oceanographic information for modeling and predicting Southern Ocean diatom biogeography

与生物多样性有关的原始研究数据的存档、公开提供和传播的组织框架和技术基础设施正在经历重大发展，以改善跨学科数据的整合。这一趋势也为有效地将生物多样性相关数据纳入海洋学研究以及为扩大旨在了解海洋浮游生物生物多样性地理分布的环境决定因素的努力开辟了新的可能性。我们的建议旨在促进这些发展，并利用它们的海洋地理生态研究的浮游硅藻的南大洋的生态位建模方法的基础上，一些关键的硅藻类群的这种环境的特征海洋地理分布。将使用的统计建模方法还可以根据模拟的环境情景预测适当生境的模型，这是预测未来潜在的地理情景的第一步。

The organizational framework and technical infrastructure for archival, public availability and dissemination of biodiversity related primary research data is undergoing major developments, towards improving cross-disciplinary data integration. This trend also opens up novel possibilities for effective integration of biodiversity related data into oceanographic studies, and for up-scaling efforts aimed at understanding environmental determinants of geographic distribution of biodiversity in the oceanic plankton. Our proposal aims at contributing to these developments and exploiting them for biogeographic-ecological research of pelagic diatoms of the Southern Ocean by building upon ecological niche modeling methodology to characterize biogeographic distributions of a number of key diatom taxa of this environment. The statistical modeling methodology to be used also enables projections of models of suitable habitats upon modeled environmental scenarios, representing a first step towards predicting potential future biogeographic scenarios.