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ANTABIF and SCAR-MarBIN sponsorship brochure available

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Want to become a partner for the Antarctic biodiversity information networks? Thanks to the help from the International Polar Foundation, a sponsorship brochure is now ready for download and distribution. The brochure includes background information on the achievements of SCAR-MarBIN and ANTABIF and give details about the different levels at which your organization can get … Continue reading ANTABIF and SCAR-MarBIN sponsorship brochure available

New paper: How many species in the Antarctic?

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  The IPY sister-projects CAML and SCAR-MarBIN provided a timely opportunity, a strong collaborative framework and an appropriate momentum to attempt assessing the “Known, Unknown and Unknowable” of Antarctic marine biodiversity. To allow assessing the known biodiversity, SCAR-MarBIN “Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)” was compiled and published by a panel of 64 taxonomic experts. … Continue reading New paper: How many species in the Antarctic?

New dataset: Antarctic Nemertea

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  Open-ocean environments provide few obvious barriers to the dispersal of marine organisms. Major currents and/or environmental gradients potentially impede gene flow. One system hypothesized to form an open-ocean dispersal barrier is the Antarctic Polar Front, an area characterized by marked temperature change, deep water, and the high-flow Antarctic Circumpolar current. Despite these potential isolating … Continue reading New dataset: Antarctic Nemertea

This week’s menu: boosting our developments!!

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This week, Nabil and I are working with Sylvain, SCAR-MarBIN's ex-developer, to give a boost to our developments... on the menu: deployment (and extensive testing) of the new version of the SCAR-MarBIN data portal, fine-tuning of the dynamic architecture for ANTABIF, synchronisation of metadata with GCMD, adding new occurrence and tracking data, polishing the Antarctic … Continue reading This week’s menu: boosting our developments!!