Information
- Type
- Project
- Name
- Ocean Biodiversity Information System
- Acronym
- OBIS
- Description @en
- The Ocean Biodiversity Information System is the information component of the Census of Marine Life (CoML), a growing network of researchers in more than 45 nations engaged in a 10-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans - past, present, and future. OBIS is a web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species and contains expert species level and habitat level databases and provide a variety of spatial query tools for visualizing relationships among species and their environment. OBIS strives to assess and integrate biological, physical, and chemical oceanographic data from multiple sources. Users of OBIS, including researchers, students, and environmental managers, will gain a dynamic view of the multi-dimensional oceanic world. You can explore this constantly expanding and developing facility through the OBIS Portal.
- Start date
- 1998
Expertise
- Biogeography
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 938
- Information systems
- defined term set: ASFA Thesaurus List
- term code: 9712
- geographic terms
- World Ocean