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European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
www.eurobis.org
Parent project: Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Acronym: EurOBIS
Period: 2004
Status: In Progress

Thesaurus terms: Biodiversity; Biogeography; Information systems
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Institute  Top | Publications 
  • Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, co-ordinator
    • Vandepitte, Leen, supervisor, project leader
    • Vanhoorne, Bart, technician
    • Mineur, Frédéric, technician
    • Perez Perez, Ruben, data manager
    • Beja de Almeida e Silva, Joana, data manager
    • Poffyn, Gizem, data manager
Abstract
The European Ocean Biodiversity Information System (EurOBIS) is a distributed system that allows you to search multiple datasets simultaneously for biogeographic information on marine organisms. EurOBIS has been developed within the MarBEF network and acts as the European node of OBIS. This distributed system to present biogeographic information will integrate individual datasets on marine organisms into one large consolidated database. Through collaboration with OBIS the scientific community will have rapid free access to data on marine species distributions, and ocean environmental data. The ultimate goal of EurOBIS is to provide the end-user with a fully searchable biogeographic database, focused on three main parameters of a distribution record: taxonomy, temporal and geographical cover. Within EurOBIS the European Register for Marine Species (ERMS) functions as the taxonomic backbone and each species list from every incoming dataset will be matched with this register.
Publications (5)  Top | Institute 
  • Vanden Berghe, E. et al. (2006). EurOBIS & Co, in: Mees, J. et al. VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 31 March 2006: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 30: pp. 59
  • Appeltans, W. et al. (2008). EurOBIS, an online atlas for European marine species distribution data, in: Iona, S. et al. IMDIS 2008 International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference IMDIS-2008, 31 March - 2 April 2008, Athens, Greece: Book of abstracts. pp. 43
  • Vanden Berghe, E. (2006). EUROBIS: growing in numbers. MarBEF Newsletter 5: 15
  • Vanhoorne, B. et al. (2004). EurOBIS: the European node of the ocean biogeographic information system, in: Ocean Biodiversity Informatics, Hamburg, Germany: 29 November to 1 December 2004: book of abstracts. pp. 105
  • Appeltans, W. et al. (2005). Europe counts marine life, in: Mees, J. et al. VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 25 February 2005: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 20: pp. 19
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