J. Mortelmans

TL;DR: This commentary outlines the establishment, function and aims of the Ocean Sampling Day Consortium and describes the vision for a sustainable study of marine microbial communities and their embedded functional traits.

TL;DR: The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) consisting of Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) with the aim to assess the status and changes in benthic fauna with genomic-based methods, notably DNA metabarcoding, in combination with image-based identifications.

TL;DR: The reported high abundances of the species, especially in the harbor of Zeebrugge, together with the high relative abundance of copepodites indicate that the species is able to reproduce within the BPNS and Belgian harbors, possibly leading to an established, permanent population.

TL;DR: The collection and processing of the 2017–2018 dataset, along with its data curation, quality control and data storage, and the classification of images using image classification algorithms, based on convolutional neural networks (CNN from 2019 onwards, is described.

TL;DR: This paper presents the generated data series for nutrients, pigments, suspended matter and turbidity, built on sampling activities initiated in 2002, but gradually upgraded and extended in the framework of the LifeWatch marine observatory and the Integrated Carbon Observation System participation.