Claus, S.

Dekeyzer, S.

Deneudt, K.

Goossens, J.

Hernandez, F.

Vandepitte, L.

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Oral presentation Science in a modern era 
LifeWatch marine data services supporting marine biodiversity and 
ecosystem research 
Deneudt Klaas, Dekeyzer Stefanie, Goossens Jolien, Claus Simon, Vandepitte Leen and Hernandez 
Francisco 
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Wandelaarkaai 7, 8400 Oostende, Belgium 
E-mail: klaas.deneudt@vliz.be  
 
LifeWatch, a landmark research infrastructure on the ESFRI roadmap, is a cross-domain e-science 
infrastructure supporting biodiversity and ecosystem research. In the marine domain LifeWatch provides 
data services for a large and broad user community dealing with a variety of data types. Activities include 
provision of data tools and services for taxonomic, ecological, omics, biogeographic, environmental and 
various types of biological observation data. Specific data systems have been developed to serve the 
European and international marine research communities, in this context acting both as data providers 
and data users. 
 
The tools for data archiving, access, quality control, standardization and harmonization, analysis and 
publication are integrated in a Marine Virtual Research Environment (Marine VRE). The Marine VRE 
provides a framework for service provision towards and co-development with the user community both 
within and outside the LifeWatch network (EMODNet, EMBRC, OTN, DISSCO, LTER, WoRMS (Eur)OBIS, IODE, 
iMarine, SeaDataNet, etc.). 
 
Scientific use cases of the LifeWatch marine services that can be demonstrated include marine species 
distribution modelling, visualization of introduction of non-indigenous species and species migration, 
species traits based ecosystem indicators, etc.  Various associated user stories evidence the crucial 
importance of e-science infrastructure like the LifeWatch taxonomic backbone and related reference data 
systems in the framework of contemporary large scale European marine biological research. 
 
Keywords: -science; marine biodiversity; virtual research environment; data systems; species distribution 
modelling; non-indigenous species; species traits 
  


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