Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
Someone suggested to me recently that pointers to data for topic maps would be quite useful.
In the vein, consider the records held by the OBIS system:
Below is an overview of some of the vital statistics of OBIS, including number of records available through the search interface, number of species and number of datasets; the numbers between brackets are those for the last two data loads, and show progress booked since then. The graph shows how the number of records increased over time.
- Number of records: 35.5 (33.6, 32.7, 32.3) million
- Number of records identified to species or infraspecies: 27.32 (26.3, 25.52, 25.19) million
- Number of records identified to genus or better: 31.1 (29.8, 28.5, 28.4) million
- Number of valid species with data reported to OBIS: 146,496 (145,899; 145,317; 145,153)
- Number of valid marine taxa in OBIS: 163,313 (162,139; 161,620; 161,493)
- Number of valid marine species: 120,259 (119,337; 118,937; 118,801)
- Number of valid marine genera: 27,333 (27,228; 27,154; 27,086)
- Number of datasets: 1,130 (1,125; 1,072; 1,056)
Talk about an opportunity to integrate data into the historical records of marine biology!