MedOBIS: Biogeographic information system for the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 316, Issue , 2006, Pages 225-230

  Arvanitidis, C ^a   Valavanis, V D ^a   Eleftheriou, A ^a   Costello, M J ^b   Faulwetter, S ^a   Gotsis, P ^a   Kitsos, M S ^c   Kirmtzoglou, I ^c   Zenetos, A ^a   Petrov, A ^d   Galil, B ^e   Papageorgiou, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d A O KOVALEVSKY INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN SEAS OF RAS   (Russian Federation)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Data management; GIS; Marine biodiversity; OBIS

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; GIS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SATELLITE DATA;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 33746589895     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps316225     Document Type: Article

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