OBIS Now Has More Than 10 Million Records
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27 Sep 2006 - 18 Jan 2016
Two years ahead of schedule, OBIS is now publishing more than 10 million records of the locations of 71,000 species from 142 datasets. The datasets recently added cover the understudied southern oceans, in particular the waters around Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and South America. Datasets are diverse both taxonomically and in the way they were collected and include records for algae, plankton, molluscs, crustaceans, fish, cetaceans, and birds. Collection methods included trawls and sightings from shore and satellites. Six of the datasets were contributed by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre, five by AfrOBIS, and two from AR-OBIS in Argentina.
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