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ArticleDatabase : the journal of biological databases and curation2019

Mesophotic.org: a repository for scientific information on mesophotic ecosystems.

Pim Bongaerts, Gonzalo Perez-Rosales, Veronica Z Radice, Gal Eyal, Andrea Gori, Erika Gress, Nicholas M Hammerman, Alejandra Hernandez-Agreda, Jack Laverick, Paul Muir and 5 more

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Article in Database : the journal of biological databases and curation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Pim BongaertsCalifornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
Gonzalo Perez-RosalesGlobal Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
Veronica Z RadiceGlobal Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
Gal EyalARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
Andrea GoriDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, Università del Salento, Lecce 73100, Italy.
Erika GressNekton Foundation, Oxford, OX5 1PF, UK.
Nicholas M HammermanARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
Alejandra Hernandez-AgredaCalifornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
Jack LaverickDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, OX1 3SZ, UK.
Paul MuirGlobal Change Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
Hudson PinheiroCalifornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
Richard L PyleBernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA.
Luiz RochaCalifornia Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
Joseph A TurnerOcean Ecology Ltd, Severnside Park, Epney, GL2 7LN, UK.
Ryan BookerGlobal Underwater Explorers, High Springs, FL 32643, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) and temperate mesophotic ecosystems (TMEs) occur at depths of roughly 30-150 m depth and are characterized by the presence of photosynthetic organisms despite reduced light availability. Exploration of these ecosystems dates back several decades, but our knowledge remained extremely limited until about a decade ago, when a renewed interest resulted in the establishment of a rapidly growing research community. Here, we present the 'mesophotic.org' database, a comprehensive and curated repository of scientific literature on mesophotic ecosystems. Through both manually curated and automatically extracted metadata, the repository facilitates rapid retrieval of available information about particular topics (e.g. taxa or geographic regions), exploration of spatial/temporal trends in research and identification of knowledge gaps. The repository can be queried to comprehensively obtain available data to address large-scale questions and guide future research directions. Overall, the 'mesophotic.org' repository provides an independent and open-source platform for the ever-growing research community working on MCEs and TMEs to collate and expedite our understanding of the occurrence, composition and functioning of these ecosystems. Database URL: http://mesophotic.org/.

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PMID31836897
PMCPMC6911162

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