Biodiversity's big wet secret: The global distribution of marine biological records reveals chronic under-exploration of the deep pelagic ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Webb, Thomas J ^a   vanden Berghe, Edward ^b   O'Dor, Ron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Census of Marine Life   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HABITAT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; PELAGIC ZONE; BIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SEA; STATISTICS; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; RECORDS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956188961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010223     Document Type: Article

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