Phytoplankton Virtual Research Environment

The Phytoplankton Virtual Research Environment (Phyto VRE) is a collaborative working environment supporting researchers to address basic and applied studies on phytoplankton ecology. The Phyto VRE provides the IT infrastructure enabling researchers to obtain, share and analyse phytoplankton data at a level of resolution going from individual cells to whole assemblages. The Phyto VRE allows to:

• Obtain and share harmonised data on taxonomy and morphological traits by using the Atlas of Phytoplankton, Atlas of Shapes and Phytoplankton Traits Thesaurus.

• Discover, access, integrate and export both own and others’ datasets (including additional metadata) held by LifeWatch Italy Data Portal or distributed data centres.

• Share and create workflows through orchestrators such as Taverna Workbench using algorithms and web services.

• Work together in a real-time environment fostering the share of knowledge and overcoming the limitations of traditional working practices, e.g. the transfer of large datasets between users or power demanded by the computational analysis.

Identification

Date ( Creation ): 2016

Date ( Publication ): 2020

Status: Completed

Version: 1.0

Keywords: Virtual Research Environment

Keywords: phytoplankton

Keywords: morphological traits

Access constraints: Copyright

Author

LifeWatch Italy, University of Salento - Elena Stanca

Author

LifeWatch Italy, ARPA Puglia - Lea Roselli

Author

LifeWatch Italy, University of Salento - Francesco Cozzoli

Author

LifeWatch Italy, University of Salento - Nicola Fiore

OnLine resource: Into page ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Service Name: Atlas of Phytoplankton

Service Description: This Atlas is a reference point for marine, transitional and freshwater scientists and students involved in phytoplankton identification and classification. It includes illustrative cards with information about: i) taxonomy, with pictures and schematic drawings, information on similar species and/or synonyms, references; ii) ecological characteristics and geographical distribution of species; and iii) morphological features, such as shape association, linear dimensions association and formulae for cell volume and surface computation.

Service Name: Atlas of Shapes

Service Description: The Atlas includes illustrative cards at hierarchical taxonomic level from phylum to genus to species. Each card consists of a detailed description of i) taxonomy, with pictures and schematic drawings, info on similar species and/or synonyms, references ii) ecological characteristics and geographical distribution of species and iii) morphological features, such as shape association, linear dimensions association and formulas for cell volume and surface.

Publications about this VRE: Elena Stanca, Leonilde Roselli, Francesco Cozzoli, Ilaria Rosati, Nicola Fiore and Alberto Basset (2017) "Phytoplankton morphological and demographic traits computation in a virtual research environment Phyto VRE", Abstract book of 52nd European Marine Biology Symposium, September 2017 Slovenia. ISBN 978-961-93486-5-9..

Publications about this VRE: Elena Stanca, Leonilde Roselli, Francesco Cozzoli, Ilaria Rosati, Nicola Fiore and Alberto Basset (2017) "Phytoplankton morphological and demographic traits computation in a virtual research environment Phyto VRE", Abstract book of 52nd European Marine Biology Symposium, September 2017 Slovenia. ISBN 978-961-93486-5-9..