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OBIS - Marine Biodiversity Database

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OBIS allows users to search marine species datasets from all of the world's oceans

Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), now part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), a UN-Oceans agency, has expanded to provide identification and location information on more than 118,000 marine species from 887 databases. OBIS now has 30 million records from an expanding network of regional nodes around the globe. OBIS is a globally integrated, geo-referenced quantitative information system. Adding new data, standardizing them in a database, and opening them to computer search multiplies the knowledge that can enlighten people and guide management decisions.

OBIS was formerly part of the Census of Marine Life (CoML), which ended a 10 year census of the world’s oceans in 2010. During the General Assembly of the IOC in June 2009, OBIS was formally adopted as an activity of its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme. OBIS will remain operating as a distributed network, but management will be under the aegis of IOC. More details on this are available on the IODE site.

To begin creating your own data tables, maps and predict distribution using environmental information, please visit the OBIS Portal. See More...

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Title

Ecology. From Individuals to Ecosystems ( BOOK )

Author(s) / Editor(s)

Begon, M;

Townsend, C R;

Harper, J L

Description

This is the fourth edition of a book that has been widely acknowledged as the higher-level ecology text of choice throughout the world for almost twenty years. # extensively updated with around 750 new references to recent studies # moves from first principles to a vivid reflection of our understanding of ecology in the 21st century # includes three new applied chapters which reflect the coming of age of a rigorous, scientific approach to the ecological problems now facing mankind # this new edition has been carefully edited and designed to ensure it is focused and accessible to students # suppported by a website featuring the artwork and glossary from the book: www.blackwellpublishing.com/begon.

Keywords

ECOLOGY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ORGANISMS;

SPECIES INTERACTIONS;

COMMUNITIES

Geography Keywords

GLOBAL

Content Language(s)

English

Web Address

http://blackwellpublishing.com/begon