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SeaLifeBase
SeaLifeBase is a global online database of information about marine life. It aims to provide key information on the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of all marine species in the world apart from finfish.〔 SeaLifeBase is in partnership with the WorldFish Center in Malaysia and the UBC Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia.〔(SeaLifeBase (SLB ) FishBase Information and Research Group (FIN). Retrieved 22 July 2011.〕 Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator and it is coordinated by Maria Lourdes D. Palomares. , it included descriptions of 118,000 species and subspecies, 25,500 common names, 9,700 pictures, and references to 15,400 works in the scientific literature.〔According to the (SeaLifeBase ) web page, accessed 21 July 2011〕 SeaLifeBase complements FishBase, which provides parallel information for finfish.
==History==
The origins of SeaLifeBase go back to the 1970s, when the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly found himself struggling to test a hypothesis on how the growing ability of fish was affected by the size of their gills.〔Bakun A (2011) ("The oxygen constraint" ) Pages 11–23. In: Villy Christensen and Jay Maclean (Eds.) ''Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective'', Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13022-6.〕 Hypotheses, such as this one, could be tested only if large amounts of empirical data were available.〔Palomares MLD and Bailly N (2011) ("Organizing and disseminating marine biodiversity information: the Fishbase and SeaLifeBase story" ) Pages 24–46. In: Villy Christensen and Jay Maclean (Eds.) ''Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective'', Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13022-6.〕 At the time, fisheries management used analytical models which required estimates for fish growth and mortality.〔Monro JL (2011) ("Assessment of exploited stock of tropical fishes: an overview" ) Pages 171–188. In: Villy Christensen and Jay Maclean (Eds.) ''Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective'', Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13022-6.〕 Pauly believed that the only practical way fisheries managers could access the volume of data they needed was to assemble all the data available in the published literature into some central repository.〔 This would mean that when a new hypothesis needs to be tested, the available data will already be there in a validated and accessible form, and there will be no need create a new dataset and then have to validate it.〔Froese R (2011) ("The science in FishBase" ) Pages 47–54. In: Villy Christensen and Jay Maclean (Eds.) ''Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective'', Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-13022-6.〕 Pauly recruited Rainer Froese, and the beginnings of a software database along these lines was encoded in 1988. This database, initially confined to tropical fish, became the prototype for FishBase. FishBase was extended to cover all finfish, and is now the largest online database for fish in the world.〔
Given FishBase's success, there was naturally a demand for a database covering forms of aquatic life other than finfish. This resulted, in 2006, in the birth of SeaLifeBase.〔 The long-term goal of the project is develop an information system modelled on FishBase, but including all forms of aquatic life, both marine and freshwater, apart from the finfish which FishBase specialises in. Altogether, there are about are 300,000 known species in this category〔(SeaLifeBase - home page ) Accessed 21 July 2011.〕
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