Recent Advances with the Ocean Biogeographic

Information System (OBIS)

Rainer Froese

Institute of Marine Research, Kiel

rfroese@ifm.uni-kiel.de

OBIS: Recent Developments• Census of Marine Life >>

• OBIS >>

• The OBIS Plan >>

• First Implementations in OBIS >>

OBIS: Recent Developments

First Implementations in FishBase:

• Name Service Index >>

• Point Data Index >>

• Interactive Map >>

• Biogeographic Modelling, with point editing >> >>

• Abundance modelling >> >>

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Point Map Exocoetus volitans

WhyWhere MapMinimum Monthly Sea Surface Temperature (Min SST)

WhyWhere MapMin SST + Primary Production

WhyWhere MapMin SST + Tidal Range

WhyWhere MapMean SST + Coastal Salinity Gradient

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Biomass of table fish in 1900

(t/km2)

(map: V. Christensen, SAUP)

Biomass of table fish in 1999 (map: V. Christensen, SAUP)

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