Data set of submerged sand deposits organised in an interoperable spatial data infrastructure (Western Sardinia, Mediterranean Sea)

Brambilla, Walter; Conforti, Alessandro; Simeone, Simone; Carrara, Paola; Lanucara, Simone; Falco, Giovanni De

doi:10.5194/essd-11-515-2019

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“…Several processes to obtain high-quality ocean data were followed during the 2000-2004 MedGOOS cruises in the Sea of Sardinia, western Mediterranean. Quality assurance, control and assessment, according to standard and best practices, defined at international level (see Bushnell et al, 2019) and after decades of application in ocean data acquisition, were considered during all cruises and are in agreement with recent standardized procedures for all sensors (Hood et al, 2010). Sensors underwent pre-and postcruise calibration and included redundancies during cruises; results were compared with water samples analyzed on board.…”

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Quality assurance and control on hydrological data off western Sardinia (2000–2004), western Mediterranean

Ribotti

Sorgente

Borghini

2020

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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Abstract. Seven oceanographic cruises in 5 years were organized in the Sea of Sardinia with the repeated collection of physical, chemical and biological data. An accurate and sustained quality assurance on physical sensors was enacted through pre- and postcruise calibration and verified during in situ acquisitions with the use of redundant sensors and other instruments. Moreover, for dissolved oxygen and conductivity, seawater samples at standard depths were frequently analyzed on board. Then an accurate quality control was used to verify all hydrological data profiles, which passed a further quality check following standard procedures. Finally all hydrological data have been included in two online public open-access datasets in the SEANOE (SEA scieNtific Open data Edition) repository (https://doi.org/10.17882/59867 and https://doi.org/10.17882/70340; Ribotti et al., 2019a, b). During and after all cruises Chlorophyll a and nutrient analyses were also carried out, but these data are not yet open access; the same applies for water current profiles, both at casts and during vessel moves, and geophysical data. These ocean data are the first covering the Sea of Sardinia for its whole extension. Here data and assurance and control procedures used are described as they have become standards in deep-sea acquisitions over the years.

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“…Redundant or secondary sensors were always used for a data quality assessment (as defined in Bushnell et al, 2019) of both temperature and salinity measurements, except during the cruise MedGOOS 1 in May-June 2000 (see Table 1).…”

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Quality assurance and control on hydrological data off western Sardinia (2000–2004), western Mediterranean

Ribotti

Sorgente

Borghini

2020

Earth Syst. Sci. Data

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“…Available data consisted of morpho-bathymetric data, aerial images and several geo-datasets. To ease processing and data sharing among researchers, all available data were integrated and organized in a geodatabase implemented through a GIS and the software suite Geoinformation Enabling Toolkit StarterKit ® (GET-IT), ( Fugazza, Oggioni & Carrara, 2014 ; Pavesi et al, 2016 ; Lanucara et al, 2017 ; Brambilla et al, 2019 ) that was developed by researchers from the Italian National Research Council within the framework of the RITMARE research project.…”

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The challenge of managing the commercial harvesting of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus: advanced approaches are required

Farina

Baroli

Brundu³

et al. 2020

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Sea urchins act as a keystone herbivore in marine coastal ecosystems, regulating macrophyte density, which offers refuge for multiple species. In the Mediterranean Sea, both the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus and fish preying on it are highly valuable target species for artisanal fisheries. As a consequence of the interactions between fish, sea urchins and macrophyte, fishing leads to trophic disorders with detrimental consequences for biodiversity and fisheries. In Sardinia (Western Mediterranean Sea), regulations for sea urchin harvesting have been in place since the mid 90s. However, given the important ecological role of P. lividus, the single-species fishery management may fail to take into account important ecosystem interactions. Hence, a deeper understanding of population dynamics, their dependance on environmental constraints and multispecies interactions may help to achieve long-term sustainable use of this resource. This work aims to highlight how sea urchin population structure varies spatially in relation to local environmental constraints and species interactions, with implications for their management. The study area (Sinis Peninsula, West Sardinia, Italy) that includes a Marine Reserve was divided into five sectors. These display combinations of the environmental constraints influencing sea urchin population dynamics, namely type of habitat (calcareous rock, granite, basalt, patchy and continuous meadows of Posidonia oceanica), average bottom current speed and predatory fish abundance. Size-frequency distribution of sea urchins under commercial size (<5 cm diameter size) assessed during the period from 2004 to 2007, before the population collapse in 2010, were compared for sectors and types of habitat. Specific correlations between recruits (0–1 cm diameter size) and bottom current speeds and between middle-sized sea urchins (2–5 cm diameter size) and predatory fish abundance were assessed. Parameters representing habitat spatial configuration (patch density, perimeter-to-area ratio, mean patch size, largest patch index, interspersion/juxtaposition index) were calculated and their influence on sea urchin density assessed. The density of sea urchins under commercial size was significantly higher in calcareous rock and was positively and significantly influenced by the density and average size of the rocky habitat patches. Recruits were significantly abundant in rocky habitats, while they were almost absent in P. oceanica meadows. The density of middle-sized sea urchins was more abundant in calcareous rock than in basalt, granite or P. oceanica. High densities of recruits resulted significantly correlated to low values of average bottom current speed, while a negative trend between the abundance of middle-sized sea urchins and predatory fish was found. Our results point out the need to account for the environmental constraints influencing local sea urchin density in fisheries management.

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“…Considerable detail is required when integrating data from unrelated, heterogenous sources. In climate science, there are recent examples of single usage bespoke solutions, for example (Brambilla et. al.…”

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Enabling FAIR Certification for Micrometeorological Datasets

Roantree,

Savić,

Scriney

et al. 2023

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Abstract. The current state of weather-induced agricultural losses, water use for irrigation, the appearance of new invasive species and disease vectors, new environmental zoning of plant diseases and pests, deforestation, increased urbanization, rural-to-urban migration and increased urban energy consumption for cooling and heating, together impose a scientific demand for FAIR micrometeorological data. FAIR data and metadata should be easily discoverable by humans or machines, accessible under specific conditions or restrictions, conform to recognized formats and standards to be combined and exchanged, and licensed according to community norms, allowing users to know what kinds of reuse are permitted. However, the lack of FAIR data costs Europe a minimum of €10.2bn per year or approximately 78 % of the Horizon annual 2020 budget. If data met the FAIR principle, it would improve data discovery and access, enable re-use, enhance understanding, especially across domains, reach as many people as possible, be cited more often, and open new routes to build cooperation. To support owners of micrometeorological data to make their data FAIR, the FAIR Micromet Portal was developed within the CA20108 COST Action to guide owners through FAIR principles, in a step-by-step manner, with the ultimate goal of making large volumes of data FAIR. This paper provides a detailed discussion on how this is achieved by validating micrometeorological data stored on the FAIR Micromet Portal against the full set of FAIR metrics.

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Data set of submerged sand deposits organised in an interoperable spatial data infrastructure (Western Sardinia, Mediterranean Sea)

Cited by 9 publications

References 48 publications

Quality assurance and control on hydrological data off western Sardinia (2000–2004), western Mediterranean

Quality assurance and control on hydrological data off western Sardinia (2000–2004), western Mediterranean

The challenge of managing the commercial harvesting of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus: advanced approaches are required

Enabling FAIR Certification for Micrometeorological Datasets

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