Jossart Q et al. (2015), The Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)...

ECB-ART-48264

Zookeys 2015 Sep 30;524:137-45. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.524.6091.

Show Gene links Show Anatomy links

The Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS): a ten-year appraisal.

Jossart Q , Moreau C , Agüera A , Broyer CD , Danis B .

???displayArticle.abstract???
The Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS) is a marine species database that manages an authoritative taxonomic list of species occurring in the Southern Ocean. RAMS links with several other initiatives managing biogeographic or genomics information. The current paper aims to briefly present RAMS and provides an updated snapshot of its contents, in the form of a DarwinCore checklist (available through http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource.do?r=rams) and illustrative barplots. Moreover, this article presents a ten year appraisal (since the creation of RAMS). This appraisal first focuses on RAMS bibliometrics. We observed that RAMS was cited (Google Scholar) in 50 distinct publications among which 32 were peer-reviewed in 18 different journals. Three journals (Antarctic Science, Polar Biology, ZooKeys) represent almost 40% of these peer-review publications. The second appraisal focuses on the evolution of new RAMS records. We observed an important decrease in data additions since 2011. As a case study, we focused on an original dataset for a specific group (Asteroidea, Echinodermata). It appears that around one hundred species of asteroids are lacking in RAMS despite the relatively high availability of these data. This suggests that the users'' community (or collaborative projects such as AquaRES) could be helpful in order to maintain the RAMS database over the long term.

???displayArticle.pubmedLink??? 26478709
???displayArticle.pmcLink??? PMC4602294
???displayArticle.link??? Zookeys

???attribute.lit??? ???displayArticles.show???

References [+] :

Costello, Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases. 2013, Pubmed

	Figure 1. Cumulative number of publications citing “Register of Antarctic Marine Species” since 2005 (orange curve) and number of publications per year citing “Register of Antarctic Marine Species” (green barplot).
	Figure 2. Number of distinct publications citing “Register of Antarctic Marine Species” per peer-reviewed journal.
	Figure 3. Number of accepted species (marine + non marine) per phylum in RAMS (orange plots, left axis) and in WoRMS (green plots, right axis). Phyla with less than 50 occurrences in RAMS were not represented.
	Figure 4. Number of species (left bars in orange) and accepted species (right bars in green) added to RAMS since 2004.
	Figure 5. Asteroidea occurrences of RAMS species (green circles) and non-RAMS species (orange circles) within the RAMS area of interest, Antarctic area (light blue) and Sub-Antarctic area (light yellow). Black continuous line is the Polar front and the black dashed line is the Subtropical front.