Quantifying Antarctic marine biodiversity: The SCAR-MarBIN data portal

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Griffiths, Huw J., Danis, Bruno, Clarke, Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2011
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Biology and Microbiology; Ecology and Environment; Data and Information; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Amundsen Sea; The Portal; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14062/

The documentation and analysis of broad-scale biological diversity requires modern databases. Here we describe the SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network (SCAR-MarBIN) and demonstrate its value with a preliminary analysis of geographic patterns in species richness for a variety of marine taxa....