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2009

Arvanitidis C, Somerfield PJ, Rumohr H, Faulwetter S, Valavanis V, Vasileiadou A, Chatzigeorgiou G, Vanden Berghe E and others (2009). Biological geography of the European seas: results from the MacroBen database. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 382: 265-278.

Bertzky, M. and S. Stoll-Kleemann. 2009. Multi-level discrepancies with sharing data on protected areas: What we have and what we need for the global village. Journal of Environmental Management 90(1): 8-24.

Costello, M.J. (2009). Motivating online publication of data. Bioscience 59: 418-427.

EarleS.A. & L.K. Glover (2009). Ocean — an illustrated atlas. National Geographic, Washington. 352 pp

Grassle, J.F. & E. Vanden Berghe (2009). Census of Marine Life 2010. Pp 62-63 in EarleS.A. & L.K. Glover (2009). Ocean — an illustrated atlas. National Geographic, Washington. 352 pp

Grémare A, Labrune C, Vanden Berghe E, Amouroux JM, Bachelet G, Zettler ML, Vanaverbeke J, Fleischer D, Bigot L, Maire O, Deflandre B and others (2009). Comparison of the performances of two biotic indices based on the MacroBen database. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 382: 297-311.

O'Dor RK, Fennel K, Vanden Berghe E (2009). A One Ocean model of Biodiversity. Deep Sea Research, in press.

Renaud PE, Webb TJ, Bjørgesæter A, Karakassis I, Kędra M, Kendall MA, Labrune C, Lampadariou N , Somerfield PJ, Włodarska-Kowalczuk M, Vanden Berghe E , Claus S and others (2009). Continental-scale patterns in benthic invertebrate diversity: insights from the MacroBen database. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 382:239-252.

Schratzberger M, Lampadariou N, Somerfield PJ, Vandepitte L., Vanden Berghe E (2009). The impact of seabed disturbance on nematode communities: linking field and laboratory observations. Mar. Biol. 156: 1-16

Somerfield PJ, Arvanitidis C, Vanden Berghe E, Van Avesaath P, Hummel H, Heip CHR (2009) INTRODUCTION: MarBEF, databases, and the legacy of John Gray. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 382:221-224.

Vandepitte, L.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Bezerra, T.N.; Mees, J.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2009). The MANUELA database: an integrated database on meiobenthos from European marine waters. Meiofauna Marina 17: 35-60

White D.L., Wolf D., Porter D.E., Sanger D.M., Riekerk G.H.M., DiDonato G., Holland A.F., Dabney D. 2009. Development of a data management framework in support of southeastern tidal creek research. Environ Monit Assess (150):323-331.

2008 Publications and Reports

Buddemeier R.W., Smith S.V., Swaney D.P., Crossland C.J., Maxwell B.A. 2008. Coastal typology: An integrative 'neutral' technique for coastal zone characterization and analysis. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 77: pp. 197-205. http://www.cs.colby.edu/maxwell/papers/pdfs/Buddemeier-ECLS-2008.pdf

Cavalcanti, M. J. and  Gallo,V. 2008. Panbiogeographical analysis of distribution patterns in hagfishes (Craniata: Myxinidae). Journal of Biogeography 35(7): 1258-1268.http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120775186/PDFSTART

Godley B.J., Blumenthal J.M.,Broderick A.C., Coyne M.S., Godfrey M.H., Hawkes L.A., Witt M.J. 2008. Satellite tracking of sea turtles: Where have we been and where do we go next? Endangered Species Research. 4: pp. 3-22. http://www.int-res.com/articles/esr2008/4/n004p003.pdf

Graham J., Simpson A., Crall A., Jarnevich C., Newman G., Stohlgren T.J. 2008. Vision of a cyberinfrastructure for nonnative, invasive species management. BioScience. 58 (3), pp. 263-268.

Poloczanska, E., A.J. Hobday & A.J. Richardson. 2008. Global database is needed to support adaptation science. Nature 453: 720.

Rayfuse R. 2008. Protecting marine biodiversity in polar areas beyond national jurisdiction. Reciel. 17 (1): pp. 3-13.

Reid D.G., Dyal P., Lozouet P., Glaubrecht M., Williams S.T. 2008. Mudwhelks and mangroves: The evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47: pp. 680-699.

Rosa, R.; Dierssen, H.M.; Gonzalez, L.; Seibel, B.A. (2008). Ecological biogeography of cephalopod molluscs in the Atlantic Ocean: historical and contemporary causes of coastal diversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 600-610

Rosa, R.; Dierssen, H.M.; Gonzalez, L.; Seibel, B.A. (2008). Large-scale diversity patterns of cephalopods in the Atlantic open ocean and deep sea. Ecology 89(12): 3449-3461.

Wriedt T., Hellmers J. 2008. New Scattering Information Portal for the light-scattering community. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer. 109: pp. 1536-1542.

Wright D.J., Halpin P.N. (in press). Spatial reasoning for terra incognita: Progress and grand challenges of marine GIS. Place Matters � Geospatial Tools for Marine Science, Conservation, and Management in the Pacific Northwest.

 

2007 Publications and Reports

Anon. 2007. River herring, in Species of Concern, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. Available on http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/concern/

Al-Sabouni N., Kucera M., Schmidt D.N. 2007. Vertical Niche separation control of Diversity and size disparity in planktonic foraminifera.Marine Micropaleontology. 63: pp. 75-90.

Best B.D., Halpin P.N., Fujioka E., Read A.J., Qian S.S., Hazen L.J., Schick R.S. 2007. Geospatial web services within a scientific workflow: Predicting marine mammal habitats in a dynamic environment. Ecological informatics. 2: pp. 210-223.

Carver J. 2007. Sharing biodiversity data, information and knowledge. A strategy for the Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (TFBIS).

De Martino A., Meichenin A., Shi J., Pan K., Bowler C. 2007. Genetic and phenotypic characterization of Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Bacillariophyceae) accessions. J. Phycol. 43: pp. 992-1009.

ESS Grau, Inc. 2007. Potencial impacts to predator-prey relationships as a result of the proposed Cape Wind Project in Nantucket Sound. Appendix 3.9-B in Cape Wind Energy Project Final Environment Impact Report/Development of Regional Impact. 13 pp.

Farfan C., Mungaray M.R., Serrano-Guzman S.J. 2007. Seed production and growth of Modiolus capax Conrad (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) in laboratory conditions. Journal of Shellfish Research. 26 (4), pp. 1075-1080.

Fleischer, D.; Grémare, A.; Labrune, C.; Rumohr, H.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Zettler, M.L. (2007). Performance comparison of two biotic indices measuring the ecological status of water bodies in the Southern Baltic and Gulf of Lions. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 54(10): 1598-1606

Fleischer D., Schaber M., Piepenburg D. 2007. Atlantic snake pipefish (Entelurus aequoreus) extends its northward distribution range to Svalbard (Arctic Ocean). Polar biol. 30: 1359-1362.

Grundlingh M.L., von St Ange U.B., Bolton J.J., Bursey M., Compagno L., Cooper R., Drapeau L., Griffiths C.L., bel Hassen M., Herbert D.G., Kirkman S., Ohland D., Robertson H.G., Trinder-Smith T., van der Westhuysen J., Verheye H.M., Coetzer W., Wilke C. 2007. AfrOBIS: a marine biogeographic information system for sub-Saharan Africa. South African Journal of Science. 103: pp. 91-93.

ICES. 2007. Report of the Working Group on Zooplankton Ecology (WGZE), 26�29 March 2007, Riga, Latvia. ICES CM 2007/OCC:04. 68 pp.

Mahidol C., Na-Nakorn U., Sukmanomon S., Yoosuk W., Taniguchi N., Nguyen T.T.T. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships among nine scallop species (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) inferred from nucleotide sequences of one mitochondrial and three nuclear gene regions. Journal of Shellfish Research. 26 (1): pp. 25-32.

Meiri S., Yom-Tov Y., Geffen E. 2007. What determines conformity to Bergmann's rule ? Global Ecology and Biogeography. 16: pp. 788-794.

Mooney-Seus M.L., Allen L.K. 2007. Science Gap Analysis: Final Report. Ecosystem-Based Coastal and Ocean Management in Massachusetts. pp. 108.

Mora C., Tittensor D.P., Myers R.A. 2007. The completeness of taxonomic inventories for describing the global diversity and distribution of marine fishes. The Royal Society.

Rees, T., Zhang, Y. 2007. Evolving concepts in the architecture and functionality of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, in: Vanden Berghe, E. et al. (Ed.) (2007). Proceedings of 'Ocean Biodiversity Informatics': an international conference on marine biodiversity data management HamburgGermany, 29 November - 1 December, 2004. IOC Workshop Report, 202, VLIZ Special Publication 37: pp. 167-176

Shimura, J., Y. Zhang, T. Matsunaga, Y. Shirayama, K. Goka. 2007. Current status of the Japanese mirror site of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) � a perspective on invasivealien marine species. Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology 12: 163-171.

Sun Song (2007). We need to know more. Science Times 31 May.

Sun Song and Sun Xiaoxia (2007). Census of Marine Life. Advances in Earth Science 22(10): 110-115 (in Chinese).

Vanden Berghe, E. 2007. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System. GLOBEC Newsletter 13(2): 83.

Vanden Berghe, E.; Appeltans, W.; Costello, M.J.; Pissierssens, P. (Ed.) (2007). Proceedings of 'Ocean Biodiversity Informatics': an international conference on marine biodiversity data management HamburgGermany, 29 November - 1 December, 2004. IOC Workshop Report, 202, VLIZ Special Publication 37. UNESCO/IOC, VLIZ, Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie: Paris, France. VI, 192 pp.

Vanden Berghe, E.; Rees, H.L.; Eggleton, J.D. (2007). NSBP 2000 data management, in: Rees, H.L. et al. (Ed.) (2007). Structure and dynamics of the North Sea benthos. ICES Cooperative Research Report, 288: pp. 7-20.

 

2006 Publications and Reports

Anon. 2006. Guiding National Ocean Research Investment: The Development of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan. ORPP Public Comments. 183 pp.

Appeltans, W.; Claus, S.; Cuvelier, D.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2006). Europe counts marine life, in: Konjevic, S. et al. (Ed.) (2006). Open Waters - Open Sources: 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Aquatic Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (EURASLIC), 4-6th May 2005, Split, Croatia. pp. 173.

Arvanitidis C., Valavanis V.D., Eleftheriou A., Costello M.J., Faulwetter S., Gotsis P., Kitsos M.S., Kirmtzoglou I., Zenetos A., Petrov A., Galil B., Papageorgiou N. 2006. MedOBIS: biogeographic information system for the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea.Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 225-230.

Bethge, P. 2006. Volkzahlung im Meer. Der Spiegel 7, pp. 132-147

Chavan, V.; Achuthankutty, C.T.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Wafar, M. (2005). IndOBIS, an Ocean Biogeographic Information System for assessment and conservation of Indian Ocean biodiversity. Indian J. Mar. Sci. 34(1): 120-127.

Costello M.J., Bouchet P., Emblow C.S., Legakis A. 2006. European marine biodiversity inventory and taxonomic resources: state of the art and gaps in knowledge.Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 257-268.

Costello M.J., Vanden Berghe E. 2006. 'Ocean Biodiversity Informatics': a new era in marine biology research and management. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 203-214.

Costello, M.J.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Browman, H.I. (2006). Ocean biodiversity informatics (OBI): Introduction. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 316: 201-202.

Fabri M-C., Galéron J., Larour M., Maudire G. 2006. Combining the biocean database for deep-sea benthic data with the online Ocean Biogeographic Information System.Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 215-224.

Gaikwad J., Chavan V. 2006. Open access and biodiversity conservation: challenges and potentials for the developing world. Data Science Journal. 5: pp. 1-17.

Garces L.R., Sylvestre G.T., Stobutzki I., Gayanilo F.C., Valdez F., Saupi M., Boonvanich T., Roongratri M., Thouc P., Purwanto, Haroon I., Kurup K.N., Srinath M., Rodrigo H.A.B., Santos M.D., Torres F.S.B., Tan M.K., Pauly D. 2006. A regional database management system � the fisheries resource information system and tools (FiRST): Its design, utility and future directions. Fisheries research. 78: pp. 119-129.

Grassle F.J., Costello M.J., Zhang Y. 2006. Analysis of geographic and taxonomic gaps in marine biological data using the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). EOS Transactions American Geophysical Union 87(36), Ocean Sciences Meeting Supplement, Abstract OS34G-01.

Guinottte J.M., Bartley J.D., Iqbal A., Fautin D.G., Buddemeier R.W. 2006. Modeling habitat distribution from organism occurrences and environmental data: case study using anemonefishes and their sea anemone hosts. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 269-283.

Halpin P.N., Read A.J., Best B.D., Hyrenbach K.D., Fujioka E., Coyne M.S., Crowder L.B., Freeman S.A., SpoerriC. 2006. OBIS-SEAMAP: developing a biogeographic research data commons for ecological studies on marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 239-246.

Kaschner K., Watson R., Trites A.W., Pauly D. 2006. Mapping world-wide distributions of marine mammal species using a relative environmental suitability (RES) model.Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 285-310.

Kintisch E. 2006. As the seas warm. Science. 313: pp. 776-779.

Linse K., Griffiths H.J., Barnes D.K.A., Clarke A. 2006. Biodiversity and biogeography of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic mollusca. Deep-Sea Research II. 53: pp. 985-1008.

Lleonart J., Taconet M., Lamboeuf M. 2006. Integrating information on marine species identification for fishery purposes. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 231-238.

Mora C., Andr�fou�t S., Costello M.J., Kranenburg C., Rollo A., Veron J., Gaston K.J., Myers R.A. 2006. Coral reefs and the global network of marine protected areas. Science. 312: pp 1750-1751.

Pilcher N.J., Compiler. 2006. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-536, 261 p.

Schelp, D. O inventário do mar, Veja 22 Feb 2006.

Shaw C.A. 2006. The Biolog�a Centrali-Americana Centennial: a vision for electronic access to taxonomic resources: the information interface between libraries and systematic biology. In: Information for Responsable Fisheries: Libraries as Mediators: proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference.

Stevens D., Richardson A.J., Reid P.C. 2006 Continuous Plankton Recorder Database: evolution, current uses and future directions. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 316: pp. 247-255.

Wei C.-L. 2006 The bathymetric zonation and community structure of deep-sea macrobenthos in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Thesis. pp. 91.

Wood J.B., Zhang P.Y., Costello M.J., Grassle J.F. 2006. An introduction to OBIS, www.iobis.org. In: Miloslavich P. and Klein E. (eds), Caribbean marine biodiversity: the known and the unknown. DEStech Publications Inc., Lancaster Pennsylvania USA, p. 253-254.

 

2005 Publications and Reports

Acosta A., Casas M., Vargas y Juan C.A., Camacho J.E. 2005. Lista de Zoantharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) del Caribe y de Colombia.. Biota Colombiana. 6 (2): pp. 147-162.

Anon. 2005. Andeep III within the framework of CeDAMar. Deep-Sea Newsletter. 34, 21 pp.

Armstrong P., Cheniece A., Chakara M. 2005. Migratory bottlenose dolphin movements and numbers along the Mid-Atlantic coast and their correlation with remotely sensed chlorophyll-a and sea surface temperatures.

Chavan V., Achuthankutty C.T., Vanden Berghe E., Wafar M. 2005. IndOBIS, an Ocean Biogeographic Information System for assessment and conservation of Indian Ocean biodiversity. Indian Journal of Marine Sciences. 34 (1): pp. 120-127.

Costello, M. J. and Emblow C. 2005. A classification of inshore marine biotopes. In: Wilson J. G. (ed.), The intertidal ecosystem: the value of Ireland's shores. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 25-35.

Costello, M.J, J. Frederick Grassle, Yunqing Zhang, Karen Stocks, Edward Vanden Berghe . 2005. Where is what and what is where? Online mapping of marine species. MarBEF Newsletter. Spring 2005, pp 20-22. download pdf

Coyne M.S., Godley B.J. 2005. Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT): an integrated system for archiving, analyzing and mapping animal tracking data. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 301: pp. 1-7.

An Implementation Strategy for the Coastal Module of the Global Ocean Observing System. GOOS Report No. 148; IOC Information Documents Series N�1217; UNESCO 2005.

Fautin, D.G., Fippinger, P. 2005. Organism occurrences in an ocean observing system. Oceans. �Proceedings of MTS/IEEE. 3: pp. 2532-2536.

Martin J.W., Haney T.A.. 2005. Decapod crustaceans from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps: a review through 2005. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 145: pp. 445-522.

McIntyre A.D. 2005. Big science in the seas. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 50: pp. 791-792.

McNyset K.M. 2005. Use of ecological niche modeling to predict distributions of freshwater fish species in Kansas. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 14: pp. 243-255.

Millard K., Atkinson R., Woolf A., Lowry R., Haaring P., Hernandez F., Hamre T., Pillich D., Bothien H., Vanden Berghe W., Johnson I., Matthews B., Dahlin H., Flemming N., Vladymyrov V., Meckenzie B., Edwards A., van der Hoeven W., Harphen Q., Ross G. 2005. Using XML technology for marine data exchange. A position paper of the Marine XML Initiative. 12pp.

O'Boyle R., Kostylev V., Breeze H., Hall T., Herbert G., Worcester T., Ricard D., Sinclair M. 2005. Developing an ecosystem-based management framework for benthic communities: A case study of the Scotian shelf. ICES CM. BB:18.

O'Dor R., Gallardo V.A. 2005. How to census marine life: ocean realm field projects. Scientia Marina. 69 (Suppl. 1): pp. 181-199.

Sanchirico J.N. 2005. A social scientist�s perspective on the Census of Marine Life. Marine Policy. 29: pp. 507-520.

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (2005). Success stories in implementation of the programmes of work on dry and sub-humid lands and the global taxonomy initiative. Anstracts of Poster Presentations at the 11th Meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Montreal, Technical Series no. 21, 189 pages.

Weihe E. 2005 Auswirkung von Hypoxie auf die Islandmuschel Arctica islandica: Untersuchungen zum zellulären Redoxpotential und Vorarbeiten für die Messung Hypoxie-induzierter Genexpression. pp. 73.

Wilson S.P., Costello M.J. 2005. Predicting future discoveries of European marine species by using a non-homogeneous renewal process. Applied Statistics. 54 (5): pp. 897-918.

Yarincik K., O'Dor R. 2005. The Census of Marine Life: goals, scope and strategy. Scientia Marina. 69 (Suppl. 1): pp. 201-208.

Zeller D., Froese R., Pauly D. 2005. On losing and recovering fisheries and marine science data. Marine Policy. 29: pp. 69-73.

2005 OBIS Annual Report

 

2004 Publications and Reports

2004 OBIS Annual Report

OBIS Implementation Plan

Kiel Report

Chavan V., Watve A.V., Londhe M.S., Rane N.S., Pandit A.T., Krishnan S. 2004. Cataloguing Indian biota: the electronic catalogue of known Indian fauna. Current Science. 87 (6): pp. 749-763.

Costello M.J. 2004. A new infrastructure for marine biology in Europe: Marine biodiversity informatics. MARBEF Newsletter No. 1, pp. 22-24.

Finlay B.J., Fenchel T. 2004. Cosmopolitan metapopulations of free-living microbial eukaryotes. Protist. 155, pp. 237-244.

Grosjean P., Picheral M., Warembourg C., Gorsky G. 2004. Enumeration, measurement, and identification of net zooplankton samples using the ZOOSCAN digital imaging system. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 61: pp. 518-525.

Lee B., Parr C.S., Campbell D., Bederson B.B. 2004. How users interact with biodiversity information using taxon tree. Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces. pp. 320-327.

Lourie S.A., Vincent A.C.J. 2004. Using biogeography to help set priorities in marine conservation. Conservation Biology. 18 (4): pp. 1004-1020.

Martin A., Van Guelpen L., Pohle G. and Costello M.J. 2004. Development of an Atlantic Canada marine species information system based on a museum collection: a case study. In: Vanden Berghe E., Brown, M., Costello, M.J., Heip C. and Pissierssens P. (eds), Proceedings of 'The Colour of Ocean Data' Symposium, Brussels 25-27 November 2002, IOC Workshop Report 188 (UNESCO), Paris), [and VLIZ Special Publication 16], pp 71-76.

Oceanography Committee (2004). Report of the ICES/IOC Study Group on the Development of Marine Data Exchange Systems using XML (SGXML) Oostende, Belgium 6-7 May, 2004. ICES: Copenhagen, Denmark. 29 pp.

Parr, J., Hiscock , K., Lear, D. 2004. UK Seabed Biology Datasets Access Programme. Scoping Study and Infrastructure Development. Report to the UK National Biodiversity Network and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from the Marine Biological Association. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association. 53 pp.

Rees T., Zhang Y. 2004. Evolving concepts in the architecture and functionality of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. In: Proceedings Ocean Biodiversity Informatics. pp.167-176.

Stocks K.I., Boehlert G.W., Dower J.F. 2004. Towards an international field programme on seamounts within the Census of Marine Life. Archive of Fishery and Marine Research. 51 (1-3): pp. 320-327.

Strain L., Rajabifard A., Williamson I. 2004. Marine administration and spatial data infrastructure. Marine Policy. 30: pp. 431-441.

Vanden Berghe E., Brown M., Costello M.J., Heip C., Levitus S., Pissierssens P. (editors). 2004. Proceedings of 'The Colour of Ocean Data' Symposium, Brussels, 25-27 November 2002. VLIZ Special Publication No. 16, IOC Workshop Reports 188 (UNESCO, Paris), x + 308 pp.

 

2003 Publications and Reports

Bazaïri H., Bayed A., Glémarec M., Hily C. 2003. Spatial organisation of macrozoobenthic communities in response to environmental factors in a coastal lagoon of the NW African coast (Merja Zerga, Morocco). Oceanologica Acta. 26, pp. 457-471.

Bergstad O. A., Godo O. R. 2003 The pilot project "Patterns and processes of the ecosystems of the northern Mid-Atlantic": aims, strategy and status. Oceanologica Acta. 25 (5): pp. 219-226.

Block B.A., Costa D.P., Boehlert G.W., Kochevar R.E. 2003. Revealing pelagic habitat use: the tagging of Pacific pelagics program. Oceanologica Acta. 25, pp. 255-266.

Bucklin A., Frost B.W., Bradford-Grieve J., Allen L.D., Copley N.J. 2003. Molecular systematic and phylogenetic assessment of 34 calanoid copepod species of the Calanidae and Clausocalanidae. Marine Biology. 142, pp. 333-343.

Costello M.J. 2003. Role of on-line species information systems in taxonomy and biodiversity. In: Heip C.H.R., Hummel H. and Avesaath P. H. van (Eds), Biodiversity of coastal marine ecosystems. Patterns and process: a Euroconference. NIOO-CEME, Yerseke, Netherlands, pp. 54-55.

Costello M.J. 2003. Marine Biodiversity Metrics. In: Zwanenburg, K.C.T., Querbach K., Kenchington E. and Frank K. (eds), Development of a science plan for marine biodiversity in Canada, Proceedings of the CoML/DFO workshop held at White Point Beach Lodge, Nova Scotia. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 2432 (viii + 72 p), p. 48-49.

Decker C. J., O'Dor R. 2003. A Census of marine life: unknowable or just unknown? Oceanologica Acta. 25 (5): pp. 179-186.

Foote K.G. 2003. Pilot Census of marine life in the Gulf of Maine: contributions of technology. Oceanologica Acta. 25: pp. 213-218.

GriffithsH.J., Linse K., Crame J.A. 2003. SOMBASE - Southern Ocean Mollusc Database: A tool for biogeographic analysis in diversity and ecology. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 3: pp. 207-213.

Hale S.S., Miglarese A.H., Bradley M.P., Belton T.J., Cooper L.D., Frame M.T., Friel C.A., Harwell L.M., King R.E., Michener W.K., Nicolson D.T., Peterjohn B.G. 2003. Managing troubled data: coastal data partnerships smooth data integration. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 81: pp. 133-148.

Heip C., Costello M., Hummel H., Avesaath P. van, Arvanitidis C. and Eleftheriou A. 2003. The status of marine biodiversity in Europe. International conference on the sustainable development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Environment, Thessaloniki, Greece, 28- 31 May 2003, Extended Abstract: http://www.iasonnet.gr/abstracts/arvanitidis.html

Hyrenbach, K.D., Irons, D.B. 2003. Introduction to the symposium on seabird biogeography: the past, present and future of marine bird communities. Marine Ornithology 31: 95-99.

Malakoff D. 2003 Scientists counting on census to reveal marine biodiversity. Science. 302: pp 773

Mattison D. 2003. Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources [Part 2]. Available on http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov03/mattison.shtml

Morris J., Villinger H., Klaus A., Cardace D., Clift P., Chavagnac V., Hisamitsu T., Kastner M., Pfender M., Saffer D., Santelli C., Schramm B., Screaton L., Solomon E., Strasser M. 2003. ODP Leg 205 explores active fluid flow across the Costa Rica convergent margin to investigate the subducton factory and seismogenic zone. MARGINS Newsletter. 10: pp. 1-5.

Palomares M.L.D., Samb B., Diouf T., Vakily J.M., Pauly D. (eds.), 2003. Fish biodiversity: Local studies as basis for global inferences. ACP-EU Fish.Res.Rep., (14): 281 p.

Pierrot-Bults A.C. 2003. A perspective on the Census of marine Life. The role of natural history institutions in this program. Oceanologica Acta. 25(5): 197-191.

Rees T. 2003. �C-Squares�, a new spatial indexing system and its applicability to the description of oceanographic datasets. Oceanography. 16: pp. 11-19.

Tsontos V. M., Kiefer D. A. 2003. The Gulf of Maine biogeographical information system project: developing a spatial data management framework in support of OBIS. Oceanologica Acta. 25 (5): pp. 199-206.

Tyler P.A., German C.R., Ramirez-Llodra E., Van Dover C.L. 2003. Understanding the biogeography of chemosynthetic ecosystems. Oceanologica Acta. 25: pp. 227-241.

Watson R., Pauly D., Christensen V., Froese R., Longhurst A., Platt T., Sathyendranath S., Sherman K., O�Reilly J., Celone P. 2003. Mapping fisheries onto marine ecosystems for regional, oceanic and global integrations. Large Marine Ecosystems of the World.

Zhang Y., Grassle J. F. 2003. A portal for the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Oceanologica Acta. 25 (5): pp. 193-197.

2002-2003 Progress Report to the Sloan Foundation

 

2002 Publications and Reports

Leslie M. (ed) 2002 Confluence of ocean info. Science. 298: pp 1685

Tarasov L.L. 2002. Deep scattering layers in the Northwestern Pacific. Acoustical Physics. 48 (1): pp. 91-97.

 

2002 Work Shop

Washington Workshop Minutes and Abstracts Natural History Museum September.3th - 5th, 2002

 

2001 Publications and Reports

O'Dor R. 2001. Counting Cephalopods in the Census of Marine Life. ICES CM. K:22.

Piatkowski U. and Wood J.B. 2001. Cephalopods: What makes them an ideal group for an Internet database. ACP-EU Fisheries Research Report No. 8, ACP-EU Fisheries Research Initiative, ISSN 1025-3971, 39-43.

Steinberg, D.K., Carlson, C.A., Bates, N.B., Johnson, R.J., Michales, A.F., and A.H. Knap., 2001. Overview of the US JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS): a decade-scale look at ocean biology and biogeochemistry. Deep-Sea Research II. 48(8-9) : pp. 1405-1447.

Wood J.B., O'Dor R.K. and U. Piatkowski. 2001. Introduction to CephBase www.cephbase.utmb.edu ACP-EU Fisheries Research Report No. 8, ACP-EU Fisheries Research Initiative, ISSN 1025-3971, 44-49.

 

2001 Meeting

OBIS International Committee Meeting. New Brunswick, NJ. August 29-30, 2001. Workshop Report.

 

2001 Work Shop

First OBIS Technical Workshop. Lawrence, KS. December 4-5, 2001. Workshop Report.

 

2000 Publications and reports

Costello, M. J. 2000. Developing species information systems: the European Register of Marine Species (ERMS). Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 48-55.

Edwards J.L., Lane M.A., Nielsen E.S. 2000. Interoperability of biodiversity databases: biodiversity information on every desktop. Science. 289: pp. 2312-2314.

Fautin, D. G. 2000. Electronic atlas of sea anemones: an OBIS pilot project. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 66-69.

Fornwall, M. 2000. Planning for OBIS: examining relationships with existing national and international biodiversity information systems. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 31-38.

Glossary of Term. 2000. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 8-9.

Gordon, D. P. 2000. The Pacific Ocean and global OBIS: a New Zealand perspective. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 41-47.

Grassle, J. F. 2000.The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): an on-line, worldwide atlas for accessing, modeling and mapping marine biological data in a multidimensional geographic context. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 5-7.

Malakoff D. 2000. Grants kick off ambitious count of all ocean life. Science. 288: pp. 1575-1576.

Mickevich, M. F., Collette, B. B. 2000. MARBID: NOAA/NMFS's (US) marine biodiversity database. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 75-78.

Myers, R. A. 2000. The synthesis of dynamic and historical data on marine populations and communities; putting dynamics into the Ocean Biogeographical Information System (OBIS). Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 56-59.

Paterson, G., Boxshall, G., Thomson, N., Hussey, C. 2000. Where are all the data. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 21-24.

Pauly D., Christensen V., Froese R., Longhurst A., Platt T., Sathyendranath S., Sherman K., Watson R. 2000. Mapping fisheries onto marine ecosystems: a proposal for a consensus approach for regional, oceanic and global integrations. ICES CM. T:14.

Rees, T. Finney, K. 2000. Biological data and metadata initiatives at CSIRO Marine Research, Australia with implications for the design of OBIS. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 60-65.

Smart, J. H. 2000. World-wide ocean optics database (WOOD). Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 70-74.

Starkey, D. J., Holm, P., Smith, T., Francis, R., Rozwadowski, H. 2000. H-OBIS: A historical dimension to the ocean biogeographic information system. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 39-40.

Tsontos, V. M., Kiefer, D. A. 2000. Development of a dynamic biographic information system for the Gulf of Maine. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 25-30.

Vieglais, D., Wiley, E. O., Robins, C. R., Peterson, A. T. 2000. Harnessing museum resources for the Census of Marine Life: the FISHNET project. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 10-13.

Wood, J.W., Day, C.L., Lee, P., O'Dor, R.K. 2000. CephBase: testing ideas for cephalopod and other species-level databases. Oceanography. 13 (3): pp. 14-20.

 

2000 Work Shop

NOPP-OBIS Workshop. Narragansett, RI. September 13-14, 2000. Workshop report.

NOPP-OBIS Workshop. Narragansett, RI. September 13-14, 2000. Appendices.

 

1999 Work Shop

Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (OBIS) First Workshop. Washington, D. C. November 3-4, 1999. Final report.

Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (OBIS) First Workshop. Washington, D. C. November 3-4, 1999. Working Group 1: System design and management of OBIS.

Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (OBIS) First Workshop. Washington, D. C. November 3-4, 1999. Working Group 2: Content of OBIS.

Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (OBIS) First Workshop. Washington, D. C. November 3-4, 1999. Working Group 3: Governance and financing of OBIS.

Ocean Biogeographic Information Systems (OBIS) First Workshop. Washington, D. C. November 3-4, 1999. Concluding remarks.

 

 

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