Recent Advances with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)

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Recent Advances with the Ocean Biogeographic
Information System (OBIS)

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

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OBIS Recent Developments

• Census of Marine Life gtgt
• OBIS gtgt
• The OBIS Plan gtgt
• First Implementations in OBIS gtgt

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OBIS Recent Developments

• First Implementations in FishBase
• Name Service Index gtgt
• Point Data Index gtgt
• Interactive Map gtgt
• Biogeographic Modelling, with point editing gtgt gtgt
• Abundance modelling gtgt gtgt

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Thank You
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Point Map Exocoetus volitans
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WhyWhere MapMinimum Monthly Sea Surface
Temperature (Min SST)
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WhyWhere MapMin SST Primary Production
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WhyWhere MapMin SST Tidal Range
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WhyWhere MapMean SST Coastal Salinity Gradient
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(t/km2)
Biomass of table fish in 1900
(map V. Christensen, SAUP)
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Biomass of table fish in 1999
(map V. Christensen, SAUP)
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