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OBIS Scheme: A platform for biodiversity data management of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - the necessity of paying attention to Makran coasts

Abstract

The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) is a data repository for marine species datasets from all the world's oceans; it uses an extension of Darwin Core as its data standard. The Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS) was selected in 2013 as the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) regional node in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman (PEGO-OBIS). Subsequently, available biodiversity data from the Northern Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman were extracted, digitized and standardized based on the OBIS data scheme (Darwin Core). The present contribution provides information on taxonomic compositions of the previous biodiversity studies and highlights relevant research gaps for the region. Overall, in this study, data from 333 information sources including eight books, nine research reports, 191 articles and 125 theses were extracted. The extracted data includes 24772 cases reported between the years 1916 to 2014. Most of the cases reported belong to the coastal area of Hormozgan (50%) and Khuzestan provinces (22%). After data standardization, the presence of 2920 species belonging to 1911 genera was revealed. Most of the recorded data belongs to the Kingdom Animalia (63%). Analysis of studies on different groups of living organisms in the region, suggest that some groups have been ignored and the focus has been on certain groups of organisms.

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Maghsoudlou, A.; Momtazi, F. (2018). OBIS Scheme: A platform for biodiversity data management of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman - the necessity of paying attention to Makran coasts, in: Jafari, H.R. et al. (Ed.) Environmental planning and management. pp. 106-122