Marine trait data within EOL: structure and statistics

Jen Hammock1, Katja Schulz1, Jorrit Poelen2

1- Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History2- Global Biotic Interactions

Global Access to Knowledge About Life on Earthhttp://eol.org/data_search

Structured data service

http://eol.org/info/traitbank_api

Resource file structure, modified Darwin Core Archive

Example

Example: tissue mineralization biogeography

Example: tissue mineralization biogeography

Example: tissue mineralization biogeography

• 70,106 hits out of 130,160 OBIS records

• 3659 out of 7943 taxa

Example: tissue mineralization biogeography

• ~500,000 trait records total in EOL• for ~290,000 taxa• inferred from 178 taxonomic nodes

according to WoRMS and AlgaeBase

• Also available: crystal structure, derivative compounds…

Marine data estimatesLarge datasets

OBIS environmental data ranges (155,000 taxa)

WoRMS distribution keywords

Habitat keywords textmined from EOL

Ecological associations data, GloBI & GoMexSI (78,000 records)

Tissue mineralization (290,000 taxa)

Type specimen repository (~50,000 taxa)

Small datasets

Copepod life history and size

Phytoplankton cell mass, volume, shape

PolyTraits- polychaete life history, physical description

Mollusk shell dimensions

See all datasets

GloBI: Global Biotic Interactions

http://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/browse/

http://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/browse/

http://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/browse/

https://github.com/jhpoelen/eol-globi-data/wiki

Thanks!

This work was supported by:

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

The Sloan Foundation

David M. Rubenstein

Jen: hammockj@si.edu