Exploring the effects of climate change on marine species using linked data

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Exploring the Effects of Climate Change on Marine Species using Linked Data Presented by SQURLs: Arne Martin Klemenz Brian Mitchell Prashant Gupta Tamara Bobic

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This is the project we (Prashant Gupta, Arne Martin Lemenz, Tamara Bobic and Brian Mitchell) did at the ESWC summer school 2014. The project used semantic technologies to integrate various data models - Ecoscope, Fishbase and Dbpedia - to explore the effects of climate change on Marine species.

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Exploring the Effects of Climate Change on Marine Species using

Linked Data

Presented by SQURLs: Arne Martin Klemenz Brian Mitchell Prashant Gupta Tamara Bobic

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Threats to Marine Biodiversity

Coll M, Piroddi C, Steenbeek J, Kaschner K, Ben Rais Lasram F, et al. (2010) The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats. PLoS ONE 5(8)

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Research Problem: view-point of a marine biologist

How do I use various datasets from multiple disciplines (climate, environment and natural disaster) to explore the

possible threats to marine biodiversity?

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What we want to do...

●  Explore the temporal changes in environmental factors at a specific location/ecosystem

●  Explore which invasive species might migrate

from other ecosystems due to environmental changes

●  Discover predator/prey relationships among the

indigenous and invasive species

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Current average temp.: 11°C Current average salinity: ~2.0% Species:

Current average temp.: 18°C Current average salinity: ~3.9% Species:

Predator relation:

is predator of

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Technical Details

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Linked datasets we have

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Schema extension

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System Architecture

Temperature and salinity

measurements

WEB API and Visualization

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Demo

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Future Directions

●  Incorporate other factors (pollution, human activities, etc) and explore their effects on marine biodiversity

●  Infer relationships and compatibilities among various ecosystems based on their marine species

●  Visualizations of various environmental factors on marine diversity both on temporal and spatial dimension

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Ευχαριστώ πολύ!

Vielen Dank!

Hvala!

Dhanyavād!

Special thanks to our tutors: Irini Fundulaki, Nikos Minadakis, Maribel Acosta and the iMarine project for providing us with the data.