 European Register of Marine Species is indexed in NameBank |
MarBEF has provided uBio with access to a taxonomic list of ERMS records which makes them available within the uBio portal, NameBank, uBioRSS, LinkIt and other tools. This provides us with the means to selectively link uBio resources and services to ERMS. The uBio project who has its origins in the MBLWHOI Library in Woods Hole, Massachusetts uses names and taxonomic intelligence to manage information about organisms.
Weblink: http://www.ubio.org/index.php?pagename=home
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| Several ERMS groups updated |
In the framework of ERMS 2.0 currently eight groups of species have been revised by the Associate Editors. The four new groups are:
Bryozoa - edited by Gil Oscar Reverter (813 taxa)
Gnathostomulida - edited by Wolfgang Sterrer (25 taxa)
Munidopsis (Decapoda) - edited by Michael Tuerkay (25 taxa)
Siphonophorae - edited by Gill Mapstone (145 taxa)
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| First ERMS groups updated |
In the framework of ERMS 2.0 currently four groups of species have been revised by the Associate Editors. The four groups are:
Oligochaeta - edited by Tarmo Timm (425 taxa)
Halacaridae - edited by Ilse Bartsch (322 taxa)
Rotifera - edited by Hendrik Segers (172 taxa)
Phoronida - edited by Christian Emig (13 taxa)
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| First biogeographic datasets online |
| 17 partner institutes will contribute their biogeographical data to MarBEF using funds from the RMP project. Two of these datasets came recently online through the EurOBIS portal:
Biocean - contact Marie-Claire Fabri (IFREMER) - 23,876 distribution records on deep sea benthos
MedOBIS - contact Christos Arvanitidis (HCMR) - 11,398 distribution records from the Mediterranean
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| EurOBIS data to download from the internet |
The biogeographical data from EurOBIS are now freely downloadable from the website (taking into account the proper use statements of the MarBEF data policy). Search the information you need through the 'add layer' button and subsequently download the data in either a tab delimited text file, a table in HTML format or as XML in a DiGIR format (OBIS core).
Weblink: European Ocean Biogeographic Information System
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 The European Marine Gazetteer |
One of the important elements of our biogeographical information system is a standard list of geographical names (gazetteer). The MarBEF data management team has developed this geographical database and as new datasets and species lists come in, the additional geographical names are entered and matched within a hierarchical structure of place names.
Weblink: Geographic System |
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| MarBEF data policy |
The MarBEF data policy has been ratified by the MarBEF community at the last General Assembly (Porto, March 2005).
All the information that is stored in the MarBEF database is subject to these rules and principles as stated in the data policy. In
order to make proper use of MarBEF data we recommend everyone who will deliver or use these data to carefully read the policy.
Weblink: MarBEF Data Policy
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| European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS) |
The European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS) is a distributed system that allows you to search multiple datasets
simultaneously for biogeographic information on marine organisms in Europe and displays the results on an interactive map.
EurOBIS has been developed within the MarBEF network and now acts as the European marine contribution to the international projects IOBIS
(www.iobis.org) and GBIF (www.gbif.org).
At the moment, EurOBIS captures and distributes more than 400,000 distribution records from 13 different data providers (list).
Weblink: European Ocean Biogeographic Information System
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| ERMS consortium of taxonomists |
Except for a few gaps, all the living groups, from small protista to plants and animals, are now covered by one or more specialists.
This consortium of taxonomists is currently revising ERMS version 1.1. The aim is to obtain an updated register of European marine species, including the latest or
generally accepted classification. ERMS 2.0 will act as the authoritative species list and as such will be the backbone for marine biodiversity data management in Europe. We are very grateful
to these people who are willing to collaborate and to spend their valuable time in this challenging project.
Weblink: ERMS 2 participants
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| European Register of Marine Species (ERMS) 2.0 |
The European Register of Marine Species 1.1 is the searchable database version, which has been made available online through MarBEF.
This version is now in the process of being revised and updated by a consortium of taxonomists and will be the ERMS version 2.0. An online tool has been developed to allow these
experts to edit the register directly on the web. Currently, the ERMS project is maintained by SMEBD, the Society for the Management of European Biodiversity Data (www.smebd.eu).
The MarBEF data management team is together with SMEBD co-ordinating the revision process.
Weblink: European Register of Marine Species 2.0
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| European Marine Biodiversity Datasets |
An online inventory of marine biodiversity datasets is created and populated with information on
monitoring datasets that were gathered in the framework of Biomare (www.biomareweb.org), added with metadata of datasets that were contributed
to the MarBEF data system. The Flanders Marine Institute also contributed their inventory of marine biodiversity related
datasets. In total more than 250 datasets are recorded. Describe your own biogeographical data through the online submission form.
Weblink: European Marine Biodiversity Datasets
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