Dataset record
- Type
- Dataset
- title in English
- Marine Species Database for Eastern Africa
- Acronym
- MASDEA
- Description in English
- MASDEA was a biogeographic/taxonomic database of marine species in the Western Indian Ocean/East Africa. The database was originally developed by Edward Vanden Berghe while working as project manager of the RECOSCIX-WIO project in Mombasa, and was later maintained as a collaborative venture between the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute and VLIZ.
MASDEA has now been superseded by the African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) (www.marinespecies.org/afremas/).
- Abstract in English
- MASDEA was a biogeographic/taxonomic database of marine species in the Western Indian Ocean/East Africa. The database was originally developed by Edward Vanden Berghe while working as project manager of the RECOSCIX-WIO project in Mombasa, and was later maintained as a collaborative venture between the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute and VLIZ.
MASDEA has now been superseded by the African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS).
- License
- https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html
- bibliographicCitation
- Vanden Berghe, E. (2004). Data from MASDEA, Marine Species Database for
Eastern Africa, provided by Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).
- Version
- 1
Temporal coverage
- Temporal
-
- Start date
- 1758-01-01
- End date
- 2012-01-01
Thesaurus terms
- Keyword
- Biogeography
- Classification
- Marine organisms
- Species
- Taxonomy
Themes
- theme
- Biology
- Biology > Ecology - biodiversity