Oceanography Special Issue: Ocean Biogeographical Information System
The following articles were printed in a special issue of Oceanography (Vol. 13, No. 3) featuring OBIS in 2000.
“The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): an on-line, worldwide atlas for accessing, modeling and mapping marine biological data in a multidimensional geographic context”, J.F. Grassle (p. 5-7)
Glossary of Terms (p. 8-9)
“Harnessing museum resources for the Census of Marine Life: the FISHNET project”, D. Vieglais, E.O. Wiley, C.R. Robins, A.T. Peterson (p. 10-13)
“CephBase: testing ideas for cephalopod and other species-level databases”, J.W. Wood, C.L. Day, P. Lee, R.K. O’Dor (p. 14-20)
“Where are all the data?”, G. Paterson, G. Boxshall, N. Thomson, C. Hussey (p. 21-24)
“Development of a dynamic biogeographic information system for the Gulf of Maine”, V.M Tsontos, D.A. Kiefer (p. 25-30)
“Planning for OBIS: examining relationships with existing national and international biodiversity information systems”, M. Fornwall (p. 31-38)
“H-OBIS: A historical dimension to the ocean biogeographic information system”, D.J. Starkey, P. Holm, T. Smith, R. Francis, H. Rozwadowski (p. 39-40)
“The Pacific Ocean and global OBIS: a New Zealand perspective”, D.P. Gordon (p. 41-47)
“Developing species information systems: the European Register of Marine Species (ERMS)”, M.J. Costello (p. 48-55)
“The synthesis of dynamic and historical data on marine populations and communities; putting dynamics into the Ocean Biogeographical Information System (OBIS)”, R.A. Myers (p. 56-59)
“Biological data and metadata initiatives at CSIRO Marine Research, Australia, with implications for the design of OBIS”, T. Rees, K. Finney (p. 60-65)
“Electronic atlas of sea anemones: an OBIS pilot project”, D.G. Fautin (p. 66-69)
“World-wide ocean optics database (WOOD)”, J.H. Smart (p. 70-74)
“MARBID: NOAA/NMFS’s (US) marine biodiversity database”, M.F. Mickevich, B.B. Collette (p. 75-78)
