Reef Check Med
Reef Check Med is the regional network of the national Reef Check non-governmental organizations affiliated to the worldwide Reef Check foundation and dealing with monitoring and conservation of the Mediterranean Sea. Network includes Reef Check Italy, Reef Check France, and Reef Check Germany.
The protocol
The main activity of the network is to teach and disseminate the Reef Check Med Underwater the Coastal Environment Monitoring Protocol[1] (RCMed U-CEM), a Citizen science initiative aimed to assess the ecological status of the Mediterranean marine coastal habitats.
History
Since 2001, trained scuba diver volunteers (collectively called EcoDivers) recorded data on the distribution, abundance, and bathymetric range of 43 selected key marine species along the Mediterranean Sea coasts using the Reef Check Mediterranean Underwater Coastal Environment Monitoring (RCMed U-CEM) protocol. The marine taxa were selected by a combination of criteria, including ease of identification and being a key indicator of shifts in the Mediterranean subtidal habitats due to local pressures and climate change. The dataset collected using the RCMed U-CEM protocol is openly accessible across different platforms and allows for various uses. It has proven to be useful for monitoring the ecological status of Mediterranean coastal environments, assessing the effects of human impacts and management interventions, and complementing scientific papers on species distribution. The commitment of volunteers promotes marine stewardship and environmental awareness in marine conservation.[1]
The RCMed dataset
The most updated RCMed dataset[2] are made freely available on a web-based geographic information system (Web GIS) built-up using the QGIS Cloud free platform. Following the FAIR principles[3], a Darwin Core compliant version of the whole dataset is available at the Biology data portal of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (European Marine Observation and Data Network) and redistributed under the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (Ocean Biodiversity Information System) networks, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Global Biodiversity Information Facility).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turicchia, Eva; Ponti, Massimo; Rossi, Gianfranco; Milanese, Martina; Di Camillo, Cristina Gioia; Cerrano, Carlo (16 August 2021). "The Reef Check Mediterranean Underwater Coastal Environment Monitoring Protocol". Frontiers in Marine Science. 8: 620368. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.620368. File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- ↑ Turicchia, Eva; Ponti, Massimo; Rossi, Gianfranco; Cerrano, Carlo (17 November 2021). "The Reef Check Med Dataset on Key Mediterranean Marine Species 2001–2020". Frontiers in Marine Science. 8: 675574. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.675574.
- ↑ Wilkinson, Mark D.; Dumontier, Michel; Aalbersberg, IJsbrand Jan; Appleton, Gabrielle; Axton, Myles; Baak, Arie; Blomberg, Niklas; Boiten, Jan-Willem; da Silva Santos, Luiz Bonino; Bourne, Philip E.; Bouwman, Jildau; Brookes, Anthony J.; Clark, Tim; Crosas, Mercè; Dillo, Ingrid; Dumon, Olivier; Edmunds, Scott; Evelo, Chris T.; Finkers, Richard; Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra; Gray, Alasdair J.G.; Groth, Paul; Goble, Carole; Grethe, Jeffrey S.; Heringa, Jaap; ’t Hoen, Peter A.C; Hooft, Rob; Kuhn, Tobias; Kok, Ruben; Kok, Joost; Lusher, Scott J.; Martone, Maryann E.; Mons, Albert; Packer, Abel L.; Persson, Bengt; Rocca-Serra, Philippe; Roos, Marco; van Schaik, Rene; Sansone, Susanna-Assunta; Schultes, Erik; Sengstag, Thierry; Slater, Ted; Strawn, George; Swertz, Morris A.; Thompson, Mark; van der Lei, Johan; van Mulligen, Erik; Velterop, Jan; Waagmeester, Andra; Wittenburg, Peter; Wolstencroft, Katherine; Zhao, Jun; Mons, Barend (December 2016). "The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship". Scientific Data. 3 (1): 160018. doi:10.1038/sdata.2016.18.
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