Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Naples, Italy.
Department of Research Infrastructures for marine biological resources, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121, Naples, Italy.
Sci Data. 2024 Sep 10;11(1):989. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03787-y.
The NEREA (Naples Ecological REsearch for Augmented observatories) initiative aims to establish an augmented observatory in the Gulf of Naples (GoN), designed to advance the understanding of marine ecosystems through a holistic approach. Inspired by the Tara Oceans expedition and building on the scientific legacy of the MareChiara Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER-MC) site, NEREA integrates traditional physical, chemical, and biological measurements with state-of-the-art methodologies such as metabarcoding and metagenomics. Here we present the first 10 months of NEREA data, collected from April 2019 to January 2020, encompassing physico-chemical parameters, plankton biodiversity (e.g., microscopy and flow cytometry), prokaryotic and eukaryotic metabarcoding, a prokaryotic gene catalogue, and a collection of 3818 prokaryotic Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs). NEREA's efforts produce a significant volume of multifaceted data, which enhances our understanding of marine ecosystems and promotes the development of scientific hypotheses and ideas.
NEREA(那不勒斯生态研究增强观测站)计划旨在那不勒斯湾(GoN)建立一个增强观测站,通过整体方法推进对海洋生态系统的理解。该计划受到 Tara Oceans 考察的启发,并借鉴 MareChiara 长期生态研究(LTER-MC)站点的科学遗产,将传统的物理、化学和生物测量与 metabarcoding 和宏基因组学等最先进的方法相结合。在这里,我们展示了 NEREA 从 2019 年 4 月到 2020 年 1 月收集的最初 10 个月的数据,包括理化参数、浮游生物生物多样性(例如显微镜和流式细胞术)、原核生物和真核生物 metabarcoding、原核生物基因目录以及 3818 个原核生物宏基因组组装基因组(MAG)的集合。NEREA 的努力产生了大量多方面的数据,这些数据增强了我们对海洋生态系统的理解,并促进了科学假设和思想的发展。