Introduction to FishBase www'fishbase'org

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Introduction to FishBasewww.fishbase.org

• Rainer Froese
• Institute for Marine Research
• Kiel, Germany
• rfroese_at_ifm.uni-kiel.de

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Overview

• Some Statistics
• FishBase Hands-on
• New Data
• New Tools
• New Links

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Some Statistics
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Some Statistics
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Some StatisticsFishBase vs Internet Usage
Source for Internet growth NUA Internet Services
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Some Statistics
Based on gt1500 entries in the FishBase Guest Book
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Some Statistics
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Some Statistics
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Statistics
Some
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Where is the Science?85 ISI Citations, 3 in
Nature, 2 in Science
IT
June 2002
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Some Statistics
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Some Statistics
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New Data

• 28,100 Species
• 6,000 Etymologies gtgt
• 1.5 Million Occurrence Data (fish collections) gtgt
• 1,500 Resilience Data gtgt
• 150,000 Common Names (Abborre) gtgt
• 33,000 Photos gtgt

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New Tools

• Length-Frequency Wizard gtgt
• MyFish Wizard gtgt
• Disease Wizard gtgt
• Identification Keys gtgt

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New Links

• Public Aquariums gtgt
• ECOTOX gtgt
• FAO Country Profiles gtgt
• ICES Catch (Atlantic saury) gtgt
• BiOSC gtgt
• Videos (Anarhichas lupus) gtgt
• Self-registered Websites gtgt

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Thank You