Sunday, November 16, 2008

Want to know where a marine species is distributed?

Found a website called Ocean Biogeographic Information System, where you can type in a marine species name and it will map out its spatial and temporal distribution.

2 comments:

CBEMN said...

thanks for posting this link: it is great!
(I also love that instead of an hourglass or clock to wait for the map to come up it is a globe).
Cathy

Mark C said...

A complementary website that uses data from OBIS is www.aquamaps.org. OBIS publishes datasets that include locations of where species have been recorded, which is a subset of all known locations, and of course only a fraction of the oceans have been sampled and observed even if all of time is considered. AquaMaps shows the probably distribution of a species based on environmental conditions.