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Marine biodiversity atlas of the Balearic Sea [Atlas de biodiversidad marina del Mar Balear]
Citation
Deudero, Vallespir, Obrador 2011. Atlas de Biodiversidad Marina del Mar Balear. http://www.ba.ieo.es. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3001

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Dedicated website
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
The marine biodiversity atlas of the Balearic Sea integrates marine information with relevant data of different taxonomic groups (from phytoplankton to big species) during a period of more than 40 years of research and surveys. more

The Marine biodiversity atlas of the Balearic Sea originates to provide the scientific community, public administration, consultancies and NGO's with a tool to easily acces the data on marine biodiversity collected by governmental agencies like the Spanish Oceanographic Institute. The Atlas has been developed based on data derived from the different research groups of the Balearic Oceanographic Centre with the information resulting from more than 40 years of marine investigations. Based on this information a dataset is constructed containing more than 90000 registers and integrating a high number of taxonomic groups: 33 phyla, 615 families, 1058 genera and around 1600 species found in the Balearic Islands context. The spacial data cover a sampled surface of roughly 150.000 km2. Objectives:
    1. Assess the marine biodiversity of de Balearic Sea and determine the specific composition of the communities of target taxonomic groups in different biotops of the Balearic waters. 2. Design and implementation of a Marine Biodiversity Information System (SIBM) which allows the integration of the available information in a common georeferenced platform.

    Scope
    Themes:
    Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton, Biology > Plants
    Keywords:
    Marine/Coastal, Atlases, Biodiversity, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Spain, Balearic I., Annelida, Chromista, Crustacea, Foraminifera, Gastropoda, Mollusca, Pisces, Protozoa

    Geographical coverage
    EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
    Bounding Box
    Coordinates: MinLong: 0,3933; MinLat: 37,833 - MaxLong: 4,9082; MaxLat: 40,3333 [WGS84]
    MED, Spain, Balearic I. [Marine Regions]

    Temporal coverage
    1970 - 24 June 2010

    Taxonomic coverage
    Annelida [WoRMS]
    Chromista [WoRMS]
    Crustacea [WoRMS]
    Foraminifera [WoRMS]
    Gastropoda [WoRMS]
    Mollusca [WoRMS]
    Pisces [WoRMS]
    Protozoa [WoRMS]

    Parameters
    Abundance
    Presence of biota

    Contributors
    Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness; Instituto Español de Oceanografía; Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares (IEO), moredata creatordata owner
    Universitat de les Illes Balears, morepartner

    Related datasets
    Published in:
    EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


    Dataset status: Completed
    Data type: Data
    Data origin: Data collection
    Metadatarecord created: 2012-03-30
    Information last updated: 2016-07-13
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