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In addition to displaying individual maps per species, AquaMaps provides tools to generate species richness maps by higher taxon, plus a spatial search for all species overlapping a specified grid square. There is also the facility to create custom maps for any species via the web by modifying the
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species, with more than 600 biodiversity maps for freshwater fishes of the Americas available as at November 2009. AquaMaps predictions have been validated successfully for a number of species using independent data sets and the model was shown to perform equally well or better than other standard
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input parameters and re-running the map generating algorithm in real time, and a variety of other tools including the investigation of effects of climate change on species distributions (see relevant section of the
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Ready, J.; K. Kaschner; A.B. South; P.D. Eastwood; T. Rees; J. Rius; E. Agbayani; S. Kullander & R. Froese (2010). "Predicting the distributions of marine organisms at the global scale".
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utilizing Aquamaps modelled data for marine fishes and invertebrates, entitled "Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate", was published in the prestigious journal
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is a collaborative project with the aim of producing computer-generated (and ultimately, expert reviewed) predicted global distribution maps for
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Kesner-Reyes, K.; K. Kaschner; S. Kullander; C. Garilao; J. Barile & R. Froese (2012). Froese, R. & D. Pauly (eds.).
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According to the AquaMaps website in August 2013, the project held standardized distribution maps for over 17,300 species of
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Sala, E.; J. Mayorga; D. Bradley; et al. (2010). "Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate".
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species distribution models, when faced with the currently existing suboptimal input data sets.
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Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
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and involves contributions from other research institutes including the
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Candela L.; Castelli D.; Coro G.; Pagano P.; Sinibaldi F. (2013).
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based on data available through online species databases such as
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Kaschner, K.; R. Watson; A.W. Trites & D. Pauly (2006).
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in Australia. The creation of AquaMaps is supported by
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Index


marine species
grid
oceans
FishBase
SeaLifeBase
OBIS
GBIF
niche modelling
fishes
marine mammals
invertebrates
freshwater
AquaMaps search page
Rainer Froese
IFM-GEOMAR
Evolutionary Biology and Ecology Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
University of British Columbia
Swedish Museum of Natural History
WorldFish Center
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
MARA
Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation
INCOFISH
Sea Around Us Project
Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals
FishBase
SeaLifeBase
Nature
Environmental niche modelling

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