Document of bibliographic reference 68867

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Bibliographic resource

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Book chapters

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AM

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Development of an updating information system on Decapoda Crustacea museum collections, useful in education and scientific research

Abstract

Natural-history museum collections contain large amounts of historical and contemporary data for the assessment of global invertebrate biodiversity. Nevertheless, these data can not be easily accessed due to a series of constrains, including the lack of relative internet-based databases.Towards this end, in the Zoological Museum of the Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki (ZMAUTH) a new information system is under development on the Decapoda Crustacea collections. ZMAUTH hosts large collections of decapod species from all habitats of the Aegean Sea and other Mediterranean areas. Recently, all these decapod specimens along with information on the habitat from which they were collected were computerized and a dynamic database was created, also suitable for use through the internet. In this database, a complete bibliographic list of the decapod species known from the NE Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea is also included as well as the relevant information on the habitat of each one of them.Furthermore, all literature information concerning the systematics, zoogeography, ecology, biology, conservation and cultural status of every registered decapod species are being computerised in the database.In this study, we demonstrate the procedures through which a user of this database can: (1) acquire the existing literature information for a species or a group of species, (2) acquire new scientific information, (3) assess, through a comparison his own relative data and (4) educate students and young researchers.

Bibliographic citation

Koukouras, A.; Kitsos, M.S.; Kirmitzoglu, I.; Arvanitidis, C. (2004). Development of an updating information system on Decapoda Crustacea museum collections, useful in education and scientific research, in: Ocean Biodiversity Informatics, Hamburg, Germany: 29 November to 1 December 2004: book of abstracts. pp. 74

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Marine