The Global Ecological Marine Units Sample Clauses

The Global Ecological Marine Units. (EMU) Project (USA) The EMU project is one of the three ecosystem classification mapping initiatives commissioned by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in 2014 with the aim to develop a standardized, robust and practical global ecosystems classification and map for the planet’s terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, completely in 3D. The project is also related with the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) and the GEO Ecosystems Initiative (GEO ECO). The basic idea is to map on global scale the physical parameters that served to structure the ecology. The EMUs are developed in a three step process: 1) create an empty, volumetric column-based mesh as a global, spatial reference standard and analytical framework, 2) populate the spatial framework with relevant marine physical environment data including water column variables and seabed topographic features, and 3) cluster the abiotic data into ecologically meaningful, 3D regions represented as volumetric polygons. The EMUs are subsequently analyzed against species distribution data to assess strength of relationship between distinct abiotic environments and species biogeography. The data framework will provide new opportunities for correlating physical, chemical, biological, and ecological variables in a 3D environment. The work is undertaken in a government / NGO / academic / private sector partnership which includes a large group of international marine experts in an advisory capacity. The global ecosystems data are intended to be useful in a variety of applications including climate change impacts assessments, ecosystem goods and services valuation assessments, conservation planning, resource management, and scientific research. The physical and chemical data are derived from NOAA’s World Ocean Atlas (WOA). Current work includes efforts to integrate the OBIS data. The EMU 3D Point Mesh Framework has 52 million points. Each cluster is being attributed with ecological and biological data. Each point is an average of an average of the prominent mean over 50 years. The temporal signal (monthly, seasonal) is not handled yet. There is not yet much progress in the integration of OBIS data because of the difference of spatial resolution of OBIS data compared with the WOA. A Vertical Profile App (xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx/xxx) allows exploration of each of the EMUs. Vertical diagrams of EMUs clusters at depth illustrates that there is a zonation but not a simple clear-cut boundary for water attr...
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