A long-term ecological research data set from the marine genetic monitoring programme ARMS-MBON 2018-2020
Authors/Creators
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Daraghmeh, Nauras
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Exter, Katrina
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Pagnier, Justine
(Project member)1
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Balazy, Piotr
(Project member)3
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Cancio, Ibon
(Project member)4
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Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
(Project member)5
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Chatzinikolaou, Eva
(Project member)5
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Chelchowski, Maciej
(Project member)3
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Chrismas, Nathan Alexis Mitchell
(Project member)6
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Comtet, Thierry
(Project member)7
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Dailianis, Thanos
(Project member)5
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Deneudt, Klaas
(Project leader)2
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Diaz de cerio, Oihane
(Project member)4
- Digenis, Markos (Project member)5
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Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
(Project member)8
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González, Jose
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Kauppi, Laura
(Project member)9
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Kristoffersen, Jon Bent
(Project member)10
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Kuklinski, Piotr
(Project member)
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Lasota, Rafal
(Project member)
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Malachowicz, Magdalena
(Project member)3
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Mortelmans, Jonas
(Project member)
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Rosendo, Estefania Paredes
(Project member)11
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Poćwierz-Kotus, Anita
(Project member)
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Reiss, Henning
(Project member)12
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Santi, Ioulia
(Project member)5
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Sarafidou, Georgia
(Project member)5
- Skouradakis, Grigorios (Project member)5
- Solbakken, Jostein (Project member)
- Vernadou, Emmanouela (Project member)
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Viard, Frédérique
(Project member)13
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Zafeiropoulos, Haris
(Project member)14
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Zbawicka, Małgorzata
(Project member)3
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Pavloudi, Christina
(Project member)15
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Obst, Matthias
(Project member)1
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Staehr, Peter A.U.
(Project member)16
- Tajadura, Javi (Project member)
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Thyrring, Jakob
(Project member)16
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Troncoso, Jesus
(Project member)11
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University of Gothenburg
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Flanders Marine Institute
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Instytut Oceanologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk
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University of the Basque Country
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology & Aquaculture
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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French National Center for Scientific Research (head office)
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Ionian University
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University of Helsinki
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hellenic National Oceanographic Data Centre
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Universidade de Vigo
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Nord University
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Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier
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Rega Institute for Medical Research
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European Marine Biological Resource Centre
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Aarhus University
Description
Molecular methods such as DNA/eDNA metabarcoding have emerged as useful tools to document the biodiversity of complex communities over large spatio-temporal scales. We established an international Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (ARMS-MBON) combining standardised sampling using autonomous reef monitoring structures (ARMS) with metabarcoding for genetic monitoring of marine hard-bottom benthic communities. Here, we present the data of our first sampling campaign comprising 56 ARMS units deployed in 2018-2019 and retrieved in 2018-2020 across 15 observatories along the coasts of Europe and adjacent regions. We describe the open-access data set (image, genetic, and metadata) and explore the genetic data to show its potential for marine biodiversity monitoring and ecological research. Our analysis shows that ARMS recovered more than 60 eukaryotic phyla capturing diversity of up to ∼5,500 amplicon sequence variants and ∼1,800 operational taxonomic units, and up to ∼250 and ∼50 species per observatory using the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and 18S rRNA marker genes, respectively. Further, ARMS detected threatened, vulnerable and non-indigenous species often targeted in biological monitoring. We show that while deployment duration does not drive diversity estimates, sampling effort and sequencing depth across observatories do. We recommend that ARMS should be deployed for at least three to six months during the main growth season to use resources as efficiently as possible and that post-sequencing curation is applied to enable statistical comparison of spatio-temporal entities. We suggest that ARMS should be used in biological monitoring programmes and long-term ecological research and encourage the adoption of our ARMS-MBON protocols.
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