Water Interdisciplinary Biology and Ecology database “WIBE”: Towards FAIR, open and interdisciplinary data on biomarkers to monitor the ecological status of coastal waters.

The Water Interdisciplinary Biology and Ecology database “WIBE” database presents data from different scientific projects proposing the monitoring of the ecological status of waters by a multi-biomarker study. This database gathers biological data of selected bioindicator species and environmental contextual data. In this work, data on physico-chemical parameters and concentrations of trace elements and organic pollutants were collected in the waters as well as biomarkers of effect and exposure to pollutants in marine organisms. The collected data, after various analyses, were cleaned and reworked to meet FAIR and open data principles. We focused on developing a data dictionary linked to existing ontologies and compliant with standards in order to make it as reusable as possible for the ecotoxicology research community. All datasets are available on the public repository of the National Biodiversity Data Centre. The current dataset can be used by port and coastal water managers but also by marine ecotoxicology researchers who will benefit from the first, to our knowledge, completely open database on marine biomarkers allowing the monitoring of coastal water contamination and thus the proposal of remediation measures if necessary.