Justine Pagnier‡§, Louise Allcock|, Ibon Cancio¶#, Eva Chatzinikolaou¤«, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou«¤, Nathan Alexis Mitchell Chrismas», Federica Costantini˄, Thanos Dailianis¤«, Klaas Deneudt˅, Oihane Díaz de Cerio¶#, Markos Digenis¤«, Katrina Exter˅, Vasilis Gerovasileiou«¤, Jose González Fernández¦, Laura Kauppiˀ, Kleoniki Keklikoglou«¤, Jon Bent Kristoffersen¤, Rune Lagaisse˅, Borut Mavričˁ, Jonas Mortelmans˅, Estefania Paredes¦, Christina Pavloudi₵, Alessandro Piazza˄, Anne Marie Power|, Andreja Ramšakˁ, Ioulia Santi₵¤, Jostein Solbakkenˀ, Melanthia Stavroulaki«¤, Peter Anton Upadhyay Stæhrℓ, Javier Tajadura#¶, Jesus Souza Troncoso¦, Katerina Vasileiadou¤«, Emmanouela Vernadou¤«, Matthias Obst‡§Corresponding author: Justine Pagnier ( justine.pagnier@gu.se ) Corresponding author: Matthias Obst ( matthias.obst@marine.gu.se ) © Justine Pagnier, Louise Allcock, Ibon Cancio, Eva Chatzinikolaou, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Nathan Chrismas, Federica Costantini, Thanos Dailianis, Klaas Deneudt, Oihane Díaz de Cerio, Markos Digenis, Katrina Exter, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Jose González Fernández, Laura Kauppi, Kleoniki Keklikoglou, Jon Bent Kristoffersen, Rune Lagaisse, Borut Mavrič, Jonas Mortelmans, Estefania Paredes, Christina Pavloudi, Alessandro Piazza, Anne Marie Power, Andreja Ramšak, Ioulia Santi, Jostein Solbakken, Melanthia Stavroulaki, Peter Stæhr, Javier Tajadura, Jesus Souza Troncoso, Katerina Vasileiadou, Emmanouela Vernadou, Matthias Obst. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Pagnier J, Allcock L, Cancio I, Chatzinikolaou E, Chatzigeorgiou G, Chrismas NM, Costantini F, Dailianis T, Deneudt K, Díaz de Cerio O, Digenis M, Exter K, Gerovasileiou V, González Fernández J, Kauppi L, Keklikoglou K, Kristoffersen JB, Lagaisse R, Mavrič B, Mortelmans J, Paredes E, Pavloudi C, Piazza A, Power AM, Ramšak A, Santi I, Solbakken J, Stavroulaki M, Stæhr PU, Tajadura J, Souza Troncoso J, Vasileiadou K, Vernadou E, Obst M (2025) A long-term ecological research data set from the marine genetic monitoring programme ARMS-MBON 2020-2021. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e149221 |  |
Continuing the international efforts of the ARMS Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (ARMS-MBON), we present data from the second sampling campaign, coming from 56 Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) deployed in 2020 and 2021 along European coasts under the European Marine Omics Biodiversity Observation Network (EMO BON). The data set includes information on sampling locations and conditions, sample archiving, and quality reports of collected samples. Data and metadata are openly accessible and can be downloaded from the associated GitHub repository. Sequence data can be accessed via the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) through the corresponding accession numbers. Images of ARMS plates are stored in PlutoF and can be downloaded through links provided in this paper. Sequence data was processed and explored with the PEMA pipeline, resulting in 17,194, 7,235 and 5,261 unique ASVs/OTUs for COI, 18S and ITS, respectively. In this data set, ARMS revealed the presence of over 61 eukaryotic phyla, aligning with our previous sampling campaign. Among these phyla, 35 had ASVs/OTUs identified to the species level. With this data set and its associated paper, we provide a standardised resource for marine biodiversity monitoring and scientific analyses of benthic biodiversity. The presented data product supports future studies on the status and changes in species composition, distribution, and genetic diversity.