Workflow 5

Workflow 5: Effects of net primary production on biodiversity in aquatic ecosystem

WF5 is a workflow designed to support the management and analysis of geospatial monitoring data. It does this by integrating in situ observations with information derived from satellite sensors (Ocean Productivity and Ocean Colour). This allows users to explore the relationships between aquatic biodiversity indicators or diversity indices, derived from in situ measurements, with net primary production, chlorophyll concentration, as well as other environmental data obtained from satellite products. The system also incorporates data on water depth and distance from the coast. WF5 provides an analytical framework combining multivariate analyses to extract key environmental gradients (PCA), assess the influence of environmental variables on biodiversity patterns (multiple linear regression and random forest), and group sites with similar biodiversity–productivity characteristics (clustering).