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Life beneath the ice: jellyfish and ctenophores from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with an image-based training set for machine learning

Citation

Verhaegen G (2021). Life beneath the ice: jellyfish and ctenophores from the Ross Sea, Antarctica, with an image-based training set for machine learning. Biodiversity Data Journal. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.9.e69374 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-09-30.

Description

Southern Ocean ecosystems are currently experiencing increased environmental changes and anthropogenic pressures, urging scientists to report on their biodiversity and biogeography. One major marine taxonomically diverse and trophically important group that has, however, stayed largely understudied until now is the gelatinous zooplankton, including cnidarians, ctenophores and tunicates. This data scarcity is predominantly due to many of these fragile, soft-bodied organisms being easily fragmented and/or destroyed with traditional net sampling methods. Progress in alternative survey methods including, for instance, optics-based methods is slowly starting to overcome these obstacles. As video annotation by human observers is both time-consuming and financially costly, machine learning techniques should be developed for the analysis of in-situ image-based datasets. This requires taxonomically accurate training sets for correct species identification and the present paper is the first to provide such data.In this study, we twice conducted three week-long in situ optics-based surveys of gelatinous zooplankton found under the ice in the McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Our study constitutes the first optics-based survey of gelatinous zooplankton in the Ross Sea and the first study to use in situ observations to describe taxonomic, trophic, and behavioral characteristics of gelatinous zooplankton from the Southern Ocean. Despite the small geographic and temporal scales of our study, we provided new undescribed morphological traits for all observed gelatinous zooplankton species (eight cnidarian and four ctenophore species). Three ctenophores and one leptomedusa likely represent undescribed species. Furthermore, along with the photography and videography, we prepared a Common Objects in Context (COCO) dataset, so that this study is the first to provide a taxonomist-ratified image training set for future machine learning algorithm development concerning Southern Ocean gelatinous zooplankton species.

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Gerlien Verhaegen
originator
position: Dr
Advanced Science-Technology Research (ASTER) Program, Institute for Extra-cutting-edge Science and Technology Avant-garde Research (X-star), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Yokosuka
JP
email: gerlienverhaegen@hotmail.com
Gerlien Verhaegen
metadata author
position: Dr
Advanced Science-Technology Research (ASTER) Program, Institute for Extra-cutting-edge Science and Technology Avant-garde Research (X-star), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Yokosuka
JP
email: gerlienverhaegen@hotmail.com
Gerlien Verhaegen
administrative point of contact
position: Dr
Advanced Science-Technology Research (ASTER) Program, Institute for Extra-cutting-edge Science and Technology Avant-garde Research (X-star), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Yokosuka
JP
email: gerlienverhaegen@hotmail.com
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