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Ocean Biogeographical Information System (OBIS)
Short history of OBIS
- 2000 - 2010: Created as data repository and information dissemination system for
the Census of Marine Life
- 2009: Adopted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO,
under the IODE programme
- Secretariat moved from Rutgers University to Ostend, Belgium
In numbers
1,800 datasets
46,500,000 records
In numbers
125,000 species
In numbers
125,000 species
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thematic portal
regional node
Antarctic OBIS
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data provider
IPT
HAB,deep sea, MPA, EBSA
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Marine Ecoregions (MEOW)
Marine World Heritage Sites
Date & Season
Oceanography
OBIS is a project of:
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GBospatial OBIS strives to document the ocean's diversity, distribution and abundance of life. Created by the Census of Marine Life, OBIS is now part of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (!QQ) of UNESCO, under its International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (lODE) programme.
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