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CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE | 2006 HIGHLIGHTS
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AT THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE
DISCOVERING DIVERSITY
CHARTING DISTRIBUTION
ASSESSING ABUNDANCE
Prepared by D. Crist and D. McIntire, Office of Marine Programs, University of Rhode Island
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Although every living individual will never be counted, rational
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Doubling zooplankton
Furry crabs
already seen by centuries of explorers. Nearshore, the number of acBecause species are the currency that measures the diversity of life, finding
New and extended techniques let scientists collect and tag creatures
Most complete registry
Needles in haystacks
appraisal of hazards and effective management requires not anhighlighted the year. And six years into its ten-year program, the Centive sampling sites has grown exponentially from 30 to 128 in 2006
and naming a new one adds, while the extinction of an old one subtracts
in order to follow their movements. Marine animals themselves are
CMarZ Census zooplankton reChEss Near Easter Island, Census
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searchers discovered 3 new genera
ecdotes but the reliable data the Census obtains. Such new techvent
explorers
discovered
a
crab
so
sus
of
Marine
Life
has
gone
fully
global.
The
17
core
Census
projects
alone.
Across
the
open
ocean,
Census
participants
tracked
with
satfrom
the
wealth
of
known
biodiversity.
Millennia
of
exploration
and
two
recruited
as
oceanographers,
mapping
their
travels
in
the
world’s
of
countless
herring
down
to
single
the
Gulf
of
Maine
released
the
fi
rst
team performed the fiDJÓRALÍV
rst DNA bar
diversity with a new species reSENSUS
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and 31 new species of copepods and
unusual it warranted a whole new
animals of a species among thounearly comprehensive list of known
coding of plankton on aTHÔNG
ship un- KÊ SINH VÂT BI
nology as that employed to observe island-sized schools of herquires one specimen, charting
involve networks of researchers spanning all ocean realms. Affiliated
ellites more than 20 species of animals from sharks and squid to sea
centuries of naming species, combined with extinctions, might have diminoceans. With their help, the Census is meeting the challenge of picARIN RÉCENSMAN
mysids, small crustaceans, in Southfamily designation, Kiwaidae. Beyond
sands collected typifies the range of
species in this ecosystem, numbering
derway, telescoping what formerly
distribution requires several, but
ring plus novel mining of historical and data archives advanced
projects added during 2006 in the Gulf of Mexico and along Australions and albatross, distributing themselves through hundreds of thouished the chance of finding new ones. Instead, new technology, exploraturing the present and shifting distribution of global marine life.
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ตีวิตเิมทะเล CENS
VIE MARIN RESANSeast Asian, Australian, and New Zeaadding a new family to the wealth of
scale challenging Census’ charting.
3,317, more than twice the number
took years of work
into just
counting abundance demands exthe
global
network
toward
a
reliable
census
by
2010.
lia’s
Great
Barrier
Reef
bring
the
participants
to
more
than
2,000
from
sands
of
kilometers
of
national
and
international
waters.
With
sound
tion
of
new
regions,
and
new
effi
ciencies
of
identifying
and
archiving
are
land waters. Analysis of collections
known biodiversity, its discovery addThe rich diversity of the isopod crustaon prior lists. Researchers continuAN LAVI MAREN YFIRLIT
weeks, an approach OF
thatMARINE
may rev- LIFE ПЕРЕПИС
amining many. During 3 explora80 nations. Nine regional and national committees ensure that all
waves, participants outlined schools of abundant fish spanning tens
accelerating the discovery of species and expansion of known diversity.
from biodiversity hotspots, the deep
Wider ranges
ed a new genus, Kiwa, named for the
ceans includes common species and
ously refine and add to the registry,
olutionize pushingМthe
tions of coral reefs, Census experts
ОРboundaries
СКГОНАСЕЛЕНИЯ 海
R LÍFRÍKI HAFSINS
Proportion of protected coral reefs
sea, and other unexplored regions
mythological Polynesian goddess of
others rarely observed. In its explorawhich includes marine life from miareas
of
the
global
ocean
are
represented.
of
kilometers
of
ocean,
whose
three
dimensions
could
not
be
revealed
of knowledge. 生物の個体米女夂調査 RECENSEME
expedited determination of many
ArcOD/MAR-ECO
When studying
their known range, plus 60 species
VSLIVSRÄKNINGEN
More new than old
is on track to double the number of
shellfish. Its furry or hairy appearance
tion of Antarctic seas, the figurative
croscopic phytoplankton up to right
FMAP/CReefs Analysts in the
of the 1 to 9 million species of anCensus’ information system, they
distribution, the surprise of finding a
never before seen over the MidTo census the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life,
previously by one-dimensional traverses. The now-proven effectiveBelow: Barcode (expanded
horizontally)
DE LA VIE
MARINE CENSUS LIVE
RE ELUSTIKU UURIMINE
known zooplankton species.
justified its species name hirsuta.
haystack, Census researchers found
whales and from seasonal migrants
Southern Ocean, found more new
CeDAMar Discovering that wholly
Census network concerned with
imals that inhabit reefs, using new
found that less than two percent
species in a new place is as exciting
Atlantic Ridge between Iceland and
of the frigate tuna, Auxis thazard. FishBol
participants
pooled
their
talents
and
specialties,
ships
and
laboratories,
ness
of
the
Census’
unprecedented
international
links,
coordination
HAVENE
MANNTALL OVER MARI
NSUS VAN MARIENE
many new species, especially isopod
to year-round residents.
than already known species among
new species outnumber known ones
the future of marine animal popmolecular techniques allowing rapof coral reefs worldwide are proBelow: Lucicutia aurita, one of many coas the discovery of a new species. A
the Azores.
© 2006.
Below: Kiwa hirsuta, the Yeti crab. Ifrearchives and technology. They sailed on 19 expeditions, for example, in
of work, and sharing of data in 2006 point toward a census by
species, represented by only a single
the animals they brought on board.
exemplifies the acceleration of dispepod species being studied by Census
DYRELIV
MIPANGO YA VIF
WE DENİZ CANLILARulations compiled the first-ever
id processing of large samples.
tected from extraction, poaching,
Vials of copepods ready for
sequencing.
mer/A. Fifis © 2006.
species in a new place may indicate
Below: Anarhichas lupus, the Atlantic
Below: A new larvacean species found in
the
Southern
Ocean
bringing
onboard
more
new
species
than
species
2010 of what lived, now lives, and will live in the world’s oceans.
scientists. R. Hopcroft, University of Alasanimal, the figurative needle, among
covery. During three cruises of several
M.D. Allison, WHOlBAHARINI
© 2006.
global assessment of the extent,
and other major threats. They built
the species adapted, the environment
wolffish. M. McKee, P. Auster, Naval
ZENSUS DES MARIN
N SAYIMI YVIRLIT YVIR
Below: Southern Ocean isopods. AcanBelow:
Anemone
crab
with
striped
eye
the
Canada
Basin
(left),
R.
Hopcroft,
Unika Fairbanks © 2006.
thousands of specimens collected.
months each, Census Antarctic scieneffectiveness, and omissions of
Undersea Research Center © 2006.
their worldwide database of prochanged, or the area was seriously
thaspidia left, and Munna right. W.
stalks collected during a Census expeversity of Alaska Fairbanks © 2006 and
LEBENS CENSUS VAN HET LEV
VSINS DJÓRALÍV SENtists, trawling the depths of the remote
coral reefs as Marine Protected ArBroekeland © 2005.
tected areas for 102 countries, inunder sampled. During 2006, counts
dition off Hawaii. A. Collins, NOAA
an unidentified Arctic deep sea sponge.
Below: Southern Ocean isopod, MunIN ZEE 海洋生物大普查 CEN
S BIOTA LAUT Hottest
THÔNG
eas. Contributing to and using the
cluding satellite imagery of reefs.
Deepest
Richest
© 2006. Courtesy of NWHIMNM.
B. Bluhm, I. MacDonald, NOAA © 2006.
Farthest
rose to 31 species in the Arctic outside
nopsis. W. Broekeland © 2005.
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areas off the coast of East Africa.
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Salmon cellphone coverage extended
Degradation and recovery in estuaries
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5 km below the surface of the Sarsity is richness, Census microbe
waters by satellite, Census researchCenSeam Scientists have found an
between the twilight or mesopelagCeDAMar Komokiacea or ‘komoMAR-ECO Among the 80,000 orCOMARGE The protozoan that
MAR-ECO At dusk above the MidPOST When 2,600 fish left rivers
HMAP In archives such as taxes on
researchers,
using equipment atgasso Sea, Census experts from 14
hunters found a richness of 20,000
ers mapped a small bird’s 70,000
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VSINS DJÓRALÍV
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ki’ dominate deep-sea foraminganisms, encompassing 354 families,
Census explorers of the continental
Atlantic Ridge, Census researchers
during the early summer of 2006
salt to cure fish, Census historians
nations caught drifting, often menkinds of bacteria floating in a sinkm search for food in a giant figure
SUS VAN MARIENE LEWE DEN
S BIOTA LAUT tached
THÔNGto the remotely operated
ing the seamount chains north of New
the surface layer, where sunlight and
genera, and species that Census deep
margins discovered in the Nazare
encountered a rush hour when anifor a career in the North Pacific,
reconstructed the changing abunifera, protozoans with false feet
vehicle Quest, found shrimp and
acing looking, animals such as this
gle liter of sea water. Samples
eight over the Pacific Ocean, from
Zealand. These creatures, when sitting
photosynthesis prepared food.
sea investigators collected from the
Canyon off Portugal differs from the
mals rise to the surface to feed, as
they carried tiny acoustic transdance of marine life in 12 estuaries
used for locomotion and food colCANLILARININ SAYIMI YVIR
SINH VÂT BIÊN
other life forms. They were found
amphipod, a small prawn-like cruswere taken in the Atlantic and PaHawaii to New Zealand to Polyneon the ocean floor, often tuck their tails
Mid-Atlantic Ridge was the reference
usual protozoans seen swimming in
if returning home for supper, and
mitters. These could be detected
and coastal seas around the world.
lection. In the Weddell Sea, where
YVIR
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เิมทะเล
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18
hours
of
data
from
an
upwardnear a hydrothermal vent
tacean, the supposed inspiration
cific, including from an eruptive fissia to Japan and back. Making this
beneath them and assume a squatting
specimen or holotype for a new spea drop of water under a microscope.
measured the traffic precisely. Using
for years by the Census using an
In archives from Roman times in the
ice crushed the ship of Antarctic exlooking echo sounder moored 1,000 m
billowing
for the movie Alien. They collected
sure 1,500 m deep. Revealed by
longest-ever electronically recorded
BIOTA
LAUT THÔNG KÊ SINH V
NSUS OF MARINE
LIFE chemical-laden water
position. Investigators have identified
cies of squid: Promachoteuthis sloani.
The single cell of this fragile new spethe world’s first long-term, full oceanarray of 252 receivers on the contiAdriatic Sea, the medieval era in
plorer Shackleton in 1915, Census
deep near the Mid-Atlantic Ridge showan
unprecedented
407º C, a
more than 500 species, likely inDNA studies, most were unknown
migration in only 200 days, the bird
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more than 611 species of GalatheAlthough collection easily damages
cies of Xenophyophore, found at
depth echo sounder, the scientists obnental shelf, reaching outward from
Northern Europe, to Colonial times
polar researchers found 59 komoki
ing plankton and fish in light blue ris1910 expedition, and others
con- ิงมีตีวิตเิมทะ
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at which lead melts
cluding 12 wholly new species that
and likely rare, inviting an estimate
averaged a surprising 350 km per
oidea, including some new ones, in
ing about 9 pm and descending about
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the soft cephalopods, the hard beaks
4,300 m depth, is enclosed within
served a daily vertical commute of up
shore and stretching along the Pain North America and Australia,
and komoki-like species, at least 42
sidered
rare
were
found
common.
exploration
by
the
Census
may
easily. It was the hottest marine
eat each other or live on organic
that the diversity of bacteria in the
day. In some cases, a breeding pair
6 am. MAR-ECO © 2006.
the Indo-Pacific Ocean alone.
are unique to each species, includa plate-like shell, 1 cm in diameter,
to 400 m (higher than the Eiffel Tower)
cific migration route to over 2,000
they confirmed the fears that exunknown to science.
The change in abundance
couldMARIN
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uncover species long unseen, the
個体米女夂調査 RECENSEtemperature ever recorded.
matter falling like snow from above.
oceans eclipses 5 to 10 million.
made the entire journey together.
ing
that
of
the
new
squid,
which
looks
composed
of
mineral
grains.
km in 2006. When a fish passes an
ploitation and habitat destruction
flect removal of predators
or
limited RESANSMAN L
appearance of a longtime absentee
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NT DE LA VIE MARINE
R. Hopcroft, University of Alaska
MARUM, University of Bremen © 2006.
J. Fuhrman, University of Southern
TOPP © 2006.
quite capable of chewing its food.
acoustic receiver, its unique identity
depleted 90 percent of important
sampling in the past.
stylids. R. Webber, Museum of New
may be a clue to rising abundance.
genus Ipoa found in the Weddell Sea. A.
Below: Xenophyophore in sediment.
MAREN YFIRLIT YFIR LÍFRÍKI H
NSUS LIVET I HAVENE
Fairbanks © 2006.
California © 2006.
is stored and later transmitted to a
species. They also confirmed the
Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa © 2006,
SV Lander 1 28 June 2004
An expedition to the Mid-Atlantic
Gooday, National Oceanography Centre,
A. Gooday, National Oceanography
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new species
of eel
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specimens not to scale.
visiting ship, telling the fish’s survivelimination of 65 percent of seaSouthampton, UK © 2006.
Centre, Southampton, UK © 2006.
Ridge, for example, captured 300
© 2006.
pout of the genus Lycodonus collected
al
and
location.
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shelf listening array achieved more
to 1,000-fold degradation of watured had not been seen since a
© 2006.
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ter quality, and accelerated species
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docks in Nassau, Bahamas, c.1904,
salmon, sturgeon, and other fish eninvasions. More happily, they also
200
300
when harvesting largely eliminated
Building and accessing the marine life database
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gaged as Census correspondents.
found signs of transitions from degthe sponge population. Library of
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percent of the world’s oceans are
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decades people have wondered if
NaGISA Among the many new
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salmon
that
have
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to
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species discovered by Census parshrouded beneath ice 700 m thick
ming in a school the size of Manhatsearchers found a “Jurassic” shrimp,
of the vast abyss below 3,000 m,
the river mouth through many dams
CoML Participants at a Scientific Steering
ticipants during 2006, the 4 kg rock
and
200 km from open water
tan off the New Jersey coast qualified
Neoglyphea neocaledonica, bedeep-sea scientists found sharks
DE LA VIDA MARINA ÅIREAMH
CENSAMANTUL
VIETII
might be less likely to survive in the
Committee meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland.
lobster that a Census explorer found
surprised Census Antarctic scienas most abundant. Focused sound,
lieved extinct for 50 million years,
were almost entirely absent and
to 75,000. TheBEATHA
library MHARASENSO
of short
OBIS During 2006 the linking of
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ARINE SAMUDRI
J. Ausubel © 2006.
open ocean than those that enjoyed
off Madagascar may be the largtists, who filmed scores of species
like the beam from a lighthouse,
alive and well on an under water
sought physiological and othDNA sequences, or barcodes for
143 databases multiplied the numSA
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youth
in
a
free-fl
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river.
Initial
TOPP Biologists download information
est. Named Palinurus barbarae, the
including a jellyfish, possibly Cosscans ocean areas 10,000 times largpeak in the Coral Sea.
er explanations. Although many
identifying marine animals, grew
ber of records in the Census’ infrom tags retrieved from seals. J. Bradley,
counts suggest that survival of stocks
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metirella davisi, swimming with
er than previously possible. Instantasharks live down to 1,500 m,
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formation system 2.5 times—from
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www.bradleyphotographic.com © 2006.
leaving dammed rivers is comparable
tentacles raised.
neous and continuous updates reveal
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they fail to colonize deeper, putHoles in the Census data
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4,000,000 in 2004 to more than
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to those leaving rivers without dams.
the extension and shrinking, fragmenting them more easily within
clearly define the unknown
ocean.
10,000,000. During 2006 the
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of
new
species
on
the
French
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tation and merging of fish schools.
reach of fisheries and thus endannumber of species encompassed
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© 2006.
gered status.
and mapped rose from 40,000
N.
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