Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean

BOLTOVSKOY DEMETRIO (EDITOR)

ETI Bioinformatics

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2005 p. 1600

90-75000-76-6

Edición actualizada y ampliada de la obra editada por D. Boltovskoy en 1999, "South tlantic Zooplankton", reformateada para soporte digital intearctivo. Edición en DVD y WWW (http://species-identification.org/species.php?species_group=zsao&menuentry=inleiding) Autores: Bernardo AbiahyUniversidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia, Caixa Postal 11461, CEP 05422 970 São Paulo, Brasil(barroso@usp.br) Viviana A. AlderInstituto Antártico Argentino and Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina(viviana@bg.fcen.uba.ar) Martin AngelSouthampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK (mva@soc.soton.ac.uk) Renate BernsteinUniversity of South Florida,  Department of Marine Science, St. Petersburg Campus, 140 7th Ave. South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701, USA (renate@seas.marine.usf.edu) Denis BinetAntennne Orstom - Centre IFREMER, B.P.  21105 - 44311, Nantes-Cedex, France Demetrio BoltovskoyDepartamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires; Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”; and CONICET, Argentina(demetrio@bg.fcen.uba.ar) Jean BouillonLaboratoire de Zoologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F.D. Roosevelt 50, Bruxelles, B-1050, Belgium(jbouillo@ulb.ac.be) Janet Bradford-GrieveNational Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Box 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand(j.grieve@niwa.cri.nz) Jean-Paul CasanovaUniversité de Provence, Biologie Animales (Plancton), case 18, 3, Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille, Cedex 3, France(bioplank@newsup.univ-mrs.fr) Paul CorneliusDepartment of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK(pfsc@nhm.ac.uk) José R. DadonDepartamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, and CONICET, Argentina(dadon@bg.fcen.uba.ar) Cristina DaponteDepartamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina(daponte@bg.fcen.uba.ar) Graciela B. EsnalDepartamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, and CONICET, Argentina(esnal@bg.fcen.uba.ar) María Ana Fernández AlamoLaboratorio de Invertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Apartado Postal 70-371, México, D.F. 04510, México(mafa@hp.fciencias.unam.mx) Adilson FransozoDepartamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista - Campus de Botucatu, CP 502, CEP 18618-000, Botucatu, SP, Brazil(btfranso@bot.zaz.com.br) Mark GibbonsZoology Department, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, Republic of South Africa(mgibbons@uwc.ac.za) Ray GibsonSchool of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK(r.gibson@livjm.ac.uk) Christoph HemlebenInstitut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Universität Tübingen, D-7400 Tübingen, Germany(christoph.hemleben@uni-tuebingen.de) Lawrence HutchingsSea Fisheries Research Institute, Private Bag X2, Roggebaai 8012, Republic of South Africa(lhutchin@sp.sfri.ac.za) Sylvia Kemmle-MueckeFachbereich Geowissenschaften, Klagenfurter Strasse, Universität Bremen, 28359 Bremen, Germanyskemle@allgeo.uni-bremen.de Stanley A. Kling416 Shore View Lane, Leucadia, California 92024, USA(skling@gs.ucsd.edu) Lena MarkhasevaZoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia(mel@zisp.spb.su) Yasunobu MatsuuraInstituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Cidade Universitária, Butantá, 05508 São Paulo, Brazil(ymatsuur@usp.br) Fernando L. M. MantelattoDepartamento de Biologia - FFCLRP-USP, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, Riberão Preto (SP), CEP 14040-901, Brazil(flmantel@spider.usp.br) Hermes W. MianzanInstituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Casilla de Correo 175, 7600 Mar del Plata, and CONICET, Argentina(hermes@mdp.edu.ar) Masaaki MuranoInstitute of Environmental Ecology, METOCEAN Co. Ltd., Riemon 1334-5, Ooigawa-cho, Shida-gun, Shizuoka 421-02, Japan(murano@notes.metocean.co.jp) María L. Negreiros-FransozoDepartamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista - Campus de Botucatu, CP 502, CEP 18618-000, Botucatu, SP, Brazil(btfranso@bot.zaz.com.br) Kir NesisP. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 36 Nakhimov Avenue, 117218 Moscow, Russia(npar@fish.comcp.msk.su) María Pilar OlivarInstituto de Ciencias del Mar, CSIC, Paseo Joan de Borbó s/n, Barcelona 08039, Spain(polivar@icm.csic.es) Takashi OnbéFaculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan.Present address: 2-60-406 Saijo Nishi-Honmachi, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0043, Japan(Fax: 81-824-22-8208) Wolfgang PetzInstitut für Zoologie, Universität Salzburg, Hellbrunner Strasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria(wolfgang.petz@sbg.ac.at) Gerhard PohleAtlantic Reference Centre, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada E0G 2X0(arc@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca) Phil R. PughSouthampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK(prp@soc.soton.ac.uk) Gotthard RichterForschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, 6000 Frankfurt am Main 1, Germany(sbaszio@sng.uni-frankfurt.de) Carlos E. F. RochaUniversidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Zoologia, Caixa Postal 11461, CEP 05422 970 São Paulo, Brasil(cefrocha@usp.br) Roger SeapyDepartment of Biological Science, California State University, Fullerton, California 92634, USA(rseapy@fullerton.edu) Vassily SpiridonovZoology Museum of the University of Moscow, Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 6, Moscow 103009, Russia(spiridonov@5.zoomus.bio.msu.ru) Geraint TarlingScottish Marine Biological Association, P.O. Box 3, Oban, Argyll, Scotland PA34 4AD, UK(gant@wpo.nerc.ac.uk) Erik ThuesenLab. II, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington 98505, USA(thuesene@elwha.evergreen.edu) Siebrecht van der SpoelZoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Postbus 94766, 1090 GT Amsterdam, The Netherlands(spoel@bio.uva.nl) Georgy VinogradovA.N. Severtzov Institute of the Problems of Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Lenin Ave. 33, Moscow 117071, Russia(egor@ecosys.sio.rssi.ru or egor@invert.sevin.msk.ru) Most biological oceanographers working on zooplankton organisms are familiar with the systematics and distribution of one group of animals, have a vague understanding of a couple more, and usually know very little about the rest. Time is often barely sufficient to keep abreast with the literature on one’s main subject of interest, let alone publications focused on other groups. Furthermore, because of the increasing degree of specialization, literature on these other groups is often either unavailable or ignored. The purpose of this interactive information system is to offer an up-to-date, comprehensive, quickly accessible, digital compendium summarizing available data on classification and geographic distribution of 28 higher-level taxa of marine zooplankton occurring in the South Atlantic Ocean. Information on morphology, reproduction, development, feeding, production rates, etc. is included, and the references provided should be helpful in guiding towards relevant papers on each subject. The information collated on this DVD-ROM was painstakingly put together using widely scattered information, including (old) expedition reports, a very substantial amount of papers of restricted circulation (cruise, internal institutional and grant reports, dissertations, etc.), unpublished data, and much personal, critical input by students of international standing with ample experience in their respective fields. In some cases this resulted in extensive taxonomic rearrangements, and in others changes with respect to previous data is suggested. Note that the taxa covered here include not only those effectively reported to date from South Atlantic waters, but also the ones whose known ranges suggest that their presence in this ocean is very likely. The Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean information system was built using ETI’s Linnaeus II software for taxonomic and biodiversity data management. This software is available to the taxonomic community free of cost (see www.eti.uva.nl). This interactive system is easy to use and offers various entry points and search routes to access over three gigabytes of information that is compiled on this DVD-ROM. The ‘navigator’ is the central page from where you can reach any part of the system. The ‘main text’ section in this information system is organized according to major plankton groups presented in traditional ‘chapters’ to facilitate overview and easy browsing; free search options support fast location of information on any of the pages. An extensive taxonomic ‘index’ (listing all scientific and common names) and the ‘higher taxa’ module (providing a taxonomic overview) give direct access to descriptive information in the ‘species’ module, the heart of the information system. Here also species-specific distributional data for the South Atlantic is given. Aside from furnishing additional evidence for identification purposes, it updates our current knowledge on the biogeography of the zooplankton of this vast area. In most cases distributional data were summarized in tables or maps in order to make them readily accessible to the reader. Whenever possible, scattered records were interpreted in terms of the ecological settings derived and general ranges are suggested. In a few instances, however, when records are too scarce and spotty, only the isolated findings are given. The ‘keys’ offer a computer-aided identification tool that should suffice for general-purpose specific, or at least generic or family-level identifications. Abundant bibliographic references to additional literature have been included to provide an entry point for further reading. Dichotomous identification keys to 16 different plankton groups are provided. In addition there are multiple entry keys in the ‘IdentifyIt’ section for the Foraminifera, Siphonophorae and Hydromedusae. Multiple entry keys allow you to freely choose any given character to identify the organism and are therefore more user-friendly than traditional keys. However, they take time to construct, hence only four are included on this DVD-ROM. Updates will sport more of these IdentifyIt keys and we challenge specialists to download the Linnaeus II software from the ETI web site and construct such new keys for their plankton groups and/or update the information held on this DVD-ROM. The ‘Brachyura Tables’ occupies separate section in the system to accommodate 19 tables that complement the information of the larval Decapods. The ‘literature’ section holds 3345 key references relevant to the zooplankton species treated on this DVD-ROM. Some statistics of the Zooplankton of the South Atlantic Ocean DVD-ROM: -          Higher taxa treated: 1,370 -          Species treated: 2,688 -          Keyed out: nearly 1,400 taxa in 18 major groups -          Illustrations: ± 10,000 -          Literature references: 3,345 -          System size: 3.5 Gigabytes In short, this DVD-ROM provides a thoroughly documented review of zooplankton species present in the South Atlantic from the equator to 60°S, from the coasts of South America to Africa, and their currently known geographic and vertical ranges. It is a unique attempt to bring together a wealth of information for a vast oceanic basin, one that is certainly in need of much further research. General data on abundance and biomass, seasonality, sinking and relationships with the sedimentary distribution of the corresponding fossilizable remains, horizontal and vertical diversity patterns, associations with currents and water masses, ecophenotypic variations, etc. complement the distributional information provided. The authors and ETI invite zooplankton specialists to make this zooplankton information system a living and evolving one by providing feedback, updating and extending the information base, and by increasing its geographic coverage. One true advantage of a digital information system is that it is much easier to update and cheaper to publish a new edition compared to traditional paper publications. Let’s make use of that advantage! Demetrio Boltovskoy, Editor                                                           Peter H Schalk, ETI BioInformatics