biomar.ulb.ac.be
Bruno Danis

Marine Biology Lab

Université Libre de Bruxelles
Who’s onboard
• Academics (4)

• PostDocs (2)

• PhDs (5)

• Technicians (5)
• Biological models: digestive tract
bacteria, ectoparasitic crabs, spine
epibionts

• Approches: morphological,
physiological and genetic

• Objectives: role of bacterial
symbionts, specificity, behavior and
genetic structure of populations,
contribution of epibionts to benthos
diversity
Symbiosis
• Biological models: echinoderms
(echinoidea, asteroidea, holothuroidea)

• Approaches: physiological responses to
combinations of environmental stressors

• Objectives: determine potential impact of
global change at sub-ecosystem levels,
integrate physiological responses in
spatially-explicit models
Eco-physiology
• Biological models: echinoderms
(echinoidea, asteroidea)

• Approaches: biodiversity census,
macro-ecological analysis,
modelisation

• Objectives: identify biodiversity
patterns, ecological role of
symbionts
Biogeography/biodiversity
• Biological models: echinoderms
(echinoidea, asteroidea), Adélie
penguins

• Approaches: information systems,
modelisation, GIS, tracking data,
integration of large data volumes

• Objectives: measure combined effects
of environmental disturbance at high
organisation levels, identify eco-
indicator species
Biodiversity informatics
T H E F O R C E H A S T W O S I D E S
R E C T O - V E R S O
v E R S O
vER SORECTO
PA R T N E R S
• ULB: Marine Biology Lab
• UGent: Marine Biology
• KUL: Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics
• VUB: Laboratory of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Marine
• ULg: Laboratoire d’Océanologie – Centre MARE
• RBINS: biodiversity.aq, MUMM
• UB, MNHN, BAS, AWI
S T R AT E G Y
• Multiple scales
• Regions exposed to contrasting changes
• Multiple standpoints
• Open Access to raw data
F U N D I N G A N D T I M E L I N E S
• 3.2 MEUR
• 2*4 years
• BELSPO, BRAIN-BE framework
• vERSO: 2014-2018
• RECTO: 2015-2019
W O R K PA C K A G E S ( C O M B I N E D )
• Connectivity and Adaptation
• Trophic Ecology
• Sensitivity and Resilience
• Integrative modelling
• Reconstruction of population histories and geographic distributions
• Macro-Ecology & Evolutionary Ecology
• Dispersal modelling & future scenarios
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Publications: 22
PhDs: 7
Postdocs: 5
a biodiversity informatics
ecosystem
Bruno Danis

SCAR-EG-ABi
Background
Meet the (dream) team
• Anton Van de Putte
• Nabil Youdjou
• Henri Robert
• … Job vacancy launched in September
Just a bit of history
• IPY, SCAR, CAML
• SCAR-MarBIN, ANTABIF, ANTABIS
• First website launched in 2005
• => now all under one banner: biodiversity.aq
Our vision:
Antarctic biodiversity data are
open, linked, useful, interoperable and safe.
The ecosystem
The	Antarc+c	Biodiversity	Portal
WWW
DATA
AFG
mARS
ATLAS
IPT
share
www.marinespecies.org/rams
RAmS
The biodiversity.aq ecosystem
Taxonomy
Register of Antarctic species
• RAMS Register of Antarctic Marine species
• http://www.marinespecies.org/rams/
• RAMS and WoRMS
• Backbone for biodiversity.aq, iOBIS
• Editorial Board: 59 experts from 18 countries
• 18,470 taxa and 10,294 species
• 81% taxonomically accepted
• Expansion into the terrestrial realm
RA(m)S
WORKSHOP	September	2016:	RAS
Future Idea: online identification
guides
Occurrence
• Make your research visible
ipt.biodiversity.aq
ipt.biodiversity.aq
IPT.BIODIVERSITY.AQ
(meta)DATA IPT
DWC-A
Data
paper
AMD
data.biodiversity.aq
data.biodiversity.aq
data.biodiversity.aq
data.biodiversity.aq
data.biodiversity.aq
DATA
Taxonomy
RAmS Environmental
AADC
AADC
IPT
Data
AMD
Metadata
New Harvester
Atlas
atlas.biodiversity.aq
Antarctic Field Guides
afg.biodiversity.aq
Identification Keys
www.xper3.fr
Microbes
mars.biodiversity.aq
mARS.biodiversity.aq
a community-driven platform to publish, document, analyze
and share their microbial genetics (meta)data
In the pipeline
Building an Antarctic LifeWatch V-Lab
ACCESS
ANALYSE
DEVELOP
VLab
GUI
Code
Github
Polar	
Macroscope
AtlasR
The future
AtlasR
DATA
AFG
IPT
dBASOBASO
KEYS
RAmS
TRAITS
Albatross diet data (Julie McIness)
TDM	outputs	for	Odontaster	validus,	Antonio	Agüera
Danis Concarneau 2016

Danis Concarneau 2016