Around the 1930’s Stevenson and Day along with the University of Cape Town (UCT) started up the UCT ecological survey project which aimed to create a reference collection of the biodiversity along the southern African coastline and various other localities …
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ArOBIS Centro Nacional Patagónico
Data on invertebrate taxa were obtained from available literature, technical reports, databases, museum data collections and from the NaGISA project in the case of Golfo Nuevo rocky shore invertebrates. It should be taken into account that the data presented here …
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Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
A total of 309 species and subspecies of Ophiuridae (brittle stars) are available in the Marine Research Laboratory of the Zoological Institute RAS collection mainly from cold and temperate waters of the World Ocean (polar and middle latitude regions). Collection …
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ArOBIS Centro Nacional Patagónico
Dataset containing 2007 records of occurrence of 39 species of fish and 2 species of squid distributed on the Patagonian continental shelf and slope. This dataset describes a new and revised version of the original data published through OBIS and …
The collection of marine, terrestrial and freshwater molluscs is primarily a scientific but also a historical and museological collection. It includes about 800 000 lots, totaling approximately 5 million specimens from around the world. These specimens are preserved as either …
Echinoid occurrences available on the Kerguelen Plateau. Data from 1872 to 2015 collected with different sampling strategies and objectives, during different campaigns. Visited areas during Marion Dufresne (MD03, MD04), POKER and PROTEKER campaigns are also provided as "noOccurrence" data.
Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node
The marine program of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition was carried out on board the diesel-turbine powered "Ob" (1955-1958) as part of the International Geophysical Year. Supplementary material was also provided by the Antarctic station "Mirnyi" and the whalers "Slava" and …
Benthic samples from HIPPIES, commercial bycatch in the Heard area, Prydz Bay data from AAMBER and the 1991, 1993 and 1997 voyages. Targeted benthos from Macquarie Island area Austral Leader in 2000.
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was led by Robert Falcon Scott with the primary objective of scientific experiments, observations and gathering of specimens and the secondary objective of being the first to reach the geographical South …
This database contains information pertaining to the negatives taken by the laboratory since its inception. Both scanning and transmission electron micrographs are catalogued within this database. Among other things, the database includes a large number of images of protists. This …
Collected by RMT trawls during ANARE 1992/93 Voyage 6 KROCK survey in the Prydz Bay region, East Antarctica. KROCK is an acronym for Krill and Rock. (KROCK Expedition - see http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/voyages/display_voyage.cfm?voyage_id=55).
AATAMS represents the higher biological monitoring of the marine environment for the IMOS program. This record presents data collected from tagged and recaptured Short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris), with data presented throughout the Southern Ocean. The study was initially conducted on …
At Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean, seals were branded between 1949-1953. Seal length was measured in feet and inches. Recaptures of seals were made up until 1955, and growth and age-specific survival was calculated.
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Biodiversity data of the modern foraminifera in the New Zealand EEZ sourced from Dr Bruce Hayward at Geomarine Research. These data come from two projects: (1) modern deep-sea (100-5000 m water depth) foraminifera; and (2) a 7 year project (1991-1998) …
The Macaulay Library is the world's largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings. Our mission is to collect and preserve recordings of each species' behavior and natural history, to facilitate the ability of others to collect …
