摘要：The Southern Ocean may contribute a considerable amount to theproposed global network of marine protected areas (MPAs) that should coverabout 10 % of the world's oceans in 2020. In the Antarctic, the Commissionfor the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) isresponsible for this task, and currently Germany leads a correspondingscientific evaluation of the wider Weddell Sea region. Compared to othermarine regions within the Southern Ocean, the Weddell Sea is exceptionallywell investigated. A tremendous amount of data and information has beenproduced over the last 4 decades. Here, we give a systematic overview ofall data sources collected in the context of the Weddell Sea MPA planningprocess. The compilation of data sources is comprised of data produced byscientists and institutions from more than 20 countries that were eitheravailable within our institutes, downloaded via data portals or transcribedfrom the literature. It is the first compilation for this area that includesabiotic data, such as bathymetry and sea ice, and ecological data fromzooplankton, zoobenthos, fish, birds and marine mammals. All data layerproducts based on this huge compilation of environmental and ecological dataare available from the data publisher PANGAEA via the six persistentidentifiers at https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899595 (Pehlke and Teschke,2019), https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899667 (Teschke et al., 2019a),https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899645 (Teschke et al., 2019b),https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899591 (Teschke et al., 2019c),https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899520 (Pehlke et al., 2019a) andhttps://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899619 (Pehlke et al., 2019b). Thiscompilation of data sources including the final data layer products will servefuture research and monitoring well beyond the current MPA developmentprocess.
