Natural history museum data on Canadian Arctic marine benthos

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Description

Complete database of Canadian Arctic marine benthic taxa from the Canadian Museum of Nature (Canada) and National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution(USA). This database is related to the publication "Roy V., Gagnon J.-M. (2016) Natural history museum data on Canadian Arctic marine benthos. Marine Biodiversity. doi: 10.1007/s12526-016-0610-2". Data from the Canadian Museum of Nature are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. Total of 6002 specimen records. Data from National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution are licensed under Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Total of 240 specimen records.

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Comment citer

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Roy V (2016): Natural history museum data on Canadian Arctic marine benthos. v2.4. Canadian Museum of Nature. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/nb9hje

Droits

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Enregistrement GBIF

Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : eaf9401e-a5e3-4a27-89ad-2d6ac6559167. Canadian Museum of Nature publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Mots-clé

Canadian Arctic; marine benthos; invertebrates; natural history collection; museum; Canadian Museum of Nature; National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution; Specimen

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Contacts

Virginie Roy

Fournisseur Des Métadonnées ●
Créateur ●
Personne De Contact

W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellow in Arctic Research

Canadian Museum of Nature

1740 Pink road

J9J 3N7 Gatineau

Québec

CA

vroy@mus-nature.ca

613-566-4263

http://nature.ca/en/research-collections/science-experts/virginie-roy

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2215-1235

Jean-Marc Gagnon

Curateur Des Données ●
Personne De Contact

Curator, Invertebrates, Zoology

Canadian Museum of Nature

1740 Pink road

J9J 3N7 Gatineau

Québec

CA

jmgagnon@mus-nature.ca

613-364-4066

http://nature.ca/en/research-collections/science-experts/jean-marc-gagnon

Couverture géographique

The Canadian Arctic marine environment is subdivided in five biogeographic units as per Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Arctic Biogeographic Units (DFO 2009): Arctic Archipelago, Arctic Basin, Eastern Arctic, Western Arctic and Hudson Bay Complex. Western, Northern and Eastern limits of the study area correspond to the Canadian Arctic Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). DFO (2009) Development of a Framework and Principles for the Biogeographic Classification of Canadian Marine Areas. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Advis. Rep. 2009/056, 17 pp.

Enveloppe géographique	Sud Ouest [50,61, -140,78], Nord Est [83,38, -51,87]

Couverture taxonomique

Pas de description disponible

Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropod), Bryozoa (Bryozoan), Echinodermata (Echinoderm), Cnidaria (Cnidarian)
Class	Polychaeta (Polychaete), Bivalvia (Bivalve), Gastropoda (Gastropod)

Couverture temporelle

Date de début / Date de fin	1892-01-01 / 2013-01-01

Données sur le projet

The present study compiles historical museum records from the Canadian Museum of Nature (6,002 records) and from the US National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution (240 records) on marine benthic taxa collected in the Canadian Arctic. The present museum datasets together cover a total of 774 taxa collected over 100 years with most of the specimens being collected between 1920’s and 1980’s in the Hudson Bay Complex and Eastern Arctic regions.

Titre	Natural history museum data on Canadian Arctic marine benthos
Identifiant	cmn-arctic-marine-benthos
Financement	This project was funded through the W. Garfield Weston Postdoctoral Fellow in Arctic Research received by VR and through research funds to JMG from the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:

Roy Virginie

Personne De Contact

Gagnon Jean-Marc

Curateur Des Données

Méthodes d'échantillonnage

The dataset compiles historical museum records from the Canadian Museum of Nature (6,002 records) and from the US National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian Institution (240 records) on marine benthic taxa collected in the Canadian Arctic. The dataset includes specimen records for the study area (i.e., the Canadian Arctic) that were, as of July 2015, catalogued and available electronically.

Etendue de l'étude	The Canadian Arctic marine environment is subdivided in five biogeographic units as per Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Arctic Biogeographic Units (DFO 2009): Arctic Archipelago, Arctic Basin, Eastern Arctic, Western Arctic and Hudson Bay Complex (Fig. 1). Western, Northern and Eastern limits of the study area correspond to the Canadian Arctic Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). DFO (2009) Development of a Framework and Principles for the Biogeographic Classification of Canadian Marine Areas. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Advis. Rep. 2009/056, 17 pp.
Contrôle qualité	Several steps were necessary to clean and to deliver the most informative database for future users. Firstly, only records having geographic coordinates were selected. Secondly, pelagic invertebrate taxa (e.g., Appendicularia, Chaetognatha, Copepoda, Ctenophora, Gymnosomata, Hyperiidae, Scyphozoa) and occasionally supra-benthic invertebrate taxa (e.g., Euphausiacea, Mysida) were removed. We did not attempt to distinguish meio- from macro-, and macro- from mega-benthic taxa. All size categories of benthos are therefore considered in the present museum database. Thirdly, because most of the specimen records did not have associated depth value, we used the bathymetry relief model of ETOPO1 (Amante and Eakins 2009) and Spatial Analyst/Extraction Tool in ArcGIS 10.2 (ESRI 2013) to add depth values to selected records. In both museum datasets, some marine specimen records had geographic coordinates located on the land. This problem is quite common for historical biodiversity records when the field collector did not record geographic coordinates and inaccurate coordinates were assigned afterwards during the data entry process. To address that issue without deleting all the “inland” records, we created a buffer zone of 20 km in the marine-to-land transitional zone using Analysis/Buffer tool in ArcGIS 10.2 (ESRI 2013). A depth value of 0 m was given to records located within the 20-km buffer zone that were missing depth values. Finally, taxonomic names were verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board 2016). Over the 100-years collection history of the two museums, several currently unaccepted taxonomic names in WoRMS were present in our datasets. To not over-estimate the total number of taxa, we only used the latest accepted taxonomic name found in WoRMS to compile the faunal inventory of 774 taxa. We provide, however, in the dataset the “original” taxonomic terms along with the “WoRMS” accepted taxonomic names.

Etendue de l'étude

The Canadian Arctic marine environment is subdivided in five biogeographic units as per Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Arctic Biogeographic Units (DFO 2009): Arctic Archipelago, Arctic Basin, Eastern Arctic, Western Arctic and Hudson Bay Complex (Fig. 1). Western, Northern and Eastern limits of the study area correspond to the Canadian Arctic Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). DFO (2009) Development of a Framework and Principles for the Biogeographic Classification of Canadian Marine Areas. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Advis. Rep. 2009/056, 17 pp.

Contrôle qualité

Several steps were necessary to clean and to deliver the most informative database for future users. Firstly, only records having geographic coordinates were selected. Secondly, pelagic invertebrate taxa (e.g., Appendicularia, Chaetognatha, Copepoda, Ctenophora, Gymnosomata, Hyperiidae, Scyphozoa) and occasionally supra-benthic invertebrate taxa (e.g., Euphausiacea, Mysida) were removed. We did not attempt to distinguish meio- from macro-, and macro- from mega-benthic taxa. All size categories of benthos are therefore considered in the present museum database. Thirdly, because most of the specimen records did not have associated depth value, we used the bathymetry relief model of ETOPO1 (Amante and Eakins 2009) and Spatial Analyst/Extraction Tool in ArcGIS 10.2 (ESRI 2013) to add depth values to selected records. In both museum datasets, some marine specimen records had geographic coordinates located on the land. This problem is quite common for historical biodiversity records when the field collector did not record geographic coordinates and inaccurate coordinates were assigned afterwards during the data entry process. To address that issue without deleting all the “inland” records, we created a buffer zone of 20 km in the marine-to-land transitional zone using Analysis/Buffer tool in ArcGIS 10.2 (ESRI 2013). A depth value of 0 m was given to records located within the 20-km buffer zone that were missing depth values. Finally, taxonomic names were verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board 2016). Over the 100-years collection history of the two museums, several currently unaccepted taxonomic names in WoRMS were present in our datasets. To not over-estimate the total number of taxa, we only used the latest accepted taxonomic name found in WoRMS to compile the faunal inventory of 774 taxa. We provide, however, in the dataset the “original” taxonomic terms along with the “WoRMS” accepted taxonomic names.

Description des étapes de la méthode:

Several steps were necessary to clean and to deliver the most informative database for future users. Firstly, only records having geographic coordinates were selected. Secondly, pelagic invertebrate taxa (e.g., Appendicularia, Chaetognatha, Copepoda, Ctenophora, Gymnosomata, Hyperiidae, Scyphozoa) and occasionally supra-benthic invertebrate taxa (e.g., Euphausiacea, Mysida) were removed. We did not attempt to distinguish meio- from macro-, and macro- from mega-benthic taxa. All size categories of benthos are therefore considered in the present museum database. Thirdly, because most of the specimen records did not have associated depth value, we used the bathymetry relief model of ETOPO1 (Amante and Eakins 2009) and Spatial Analyst/Extraction Tool in ArcGIS 10.2 (ESRI 2013) to add depth values to selected records. In both museum datasets, some marine specimen records had geographic coordinates located on the land. This problem is quite common for historical biodiversity records when the field collector did not record geographic coordinates and inaccurate coordinates were assigned afterwards during the data entry process. To address that issue without deleting all the “inland” records, we created a buffer zone of 20 km in the marine-to-land transitional zone using Analysis/Buffer tool in ArcGIS 10.2 (ESRI 2013). A depth value of 0 m was given to records located within the 20-km buffer zone that were missing depth values. Finally, taxonomic names were verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board 2016). Over the 100-years collection history of the two museums, several currently unaccepted taxonomic names in WoRMS were present in our datasets. To not over-estimate the total number of taxa, we only used the latest accepted taxonomic name found in WoRMS to compile the faunal inventory of 774 taxa. We provide, however, in the dataset the “original” taxonomic terms along with the “WoRMS” accepted taxonomic names.

Données de collection

Nom de la collection	Invertebrate Collection, Zoology Collection, Canadian Museum of Nature

Méthode de conservation des spécimens	Formalin

Citations bibliographiques

Roy V., Gagnon J.-M. 2016. Natural history museum data on Canadian Arctic marine benthos. Marine Biodiversity. doi: 10.1007/s12526-016-0610-2 http://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-016-0610-2

Métadonnées additionnelles

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Identifiants alternatifs	doi:10.5886/nb9hje
	eaf9401e-a5e3-4a27-89ad-2d6ac6559167
	http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=cmn-arctic-marine-benthos