Title

Pacific islands Marine bioinvasion Alert Network (PacMAN)

License

Public Domain (PD)

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Abstract

The project will develop a national invasive species monitoring system as well as an early-warning decision-support tool for Pacific SIDS, offering a user-friendly dashboard indicating the potential presence of invasive species (including pathogens and pest species) or risk of invasions to support local management. The project will achieve this goal through a work plan that includes (i) needs assessment and review of current best practices in detecting invasive species; (ii) training of local scientists in field sampling, sample processing, DNA sequencing and data management; (iii) establishing and operating national invasive species monitoring plans; (iv) building a bioinformatics pipeline to improve the availability of metabarcoding data from biofouling communities and feed these into global data infrastructures and (v) develop the decision-support tool. Strong ​stakeholder engagement​ will ensure that the marine bioinvasions monitoring plan and the information and services of the decision-support tool contribute to and meet the requirements of local management (triggering rapid response).

Project website

https://pacman.obis.org

Keywords

• GOOS Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs)
  • Marine birds abundance and distribution
  • Fish abundance and distribution
  • Hard coral cover and composition
  • Invertebrate abundance and distribution
  • Macroalgal canopy cover and composition
  • Marine mammals abundance and distribution
  • Mangrove cover and composition
  • Microbe biomass and diversity
  • Phytoplankton biomass and diversity
  • Seagrass cover and composition
  • Marine turtles abundance and distribution
  • Zooplankton biomass and diversity

SOPs

Outputs

Interested in publishing to OBIS

-

Data in OBIS

No; none of the biological data collected by the network is included in OBIS

Funding

PacMAN is a 3-year (2020-2023) project funded by the Flanders Government, through the Flanders UNESCO Trust Fund (FUST) for the support of UNESCO’s activities in the field of Science, and co-funded by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.

Funding sector

• Governmental
• Other

Regions

Fiji

Responsible

wardappeltans

Point of Contact

wardappeltans

Maintenance Frequency

Quarterly (4X Per Year)

Temporal Extent

November 2021 -

Data Quality

Created with GeoNode

Supplemental Information

No information provided

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