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COMARGIS: Information System on Continental Margin Ecosystems
Citation
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer – IFREMER (2016): COMARGIS: Information System on Continental Margin Ecosystems https://doi.org/10.15468/0djslr
Contact: Menot, Lénaïck ; Borremans, Catherine

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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
COMARGIS is the Information System of COMARGE (COntinental MARgin Ecosystems on a worldwide scale), a field project of the Census of Marine Life. The core of the system is a relational database implemented in ORACLE. Additional software help the users uploading, retrieving or updating data in the database. The whole system is derived from Biocean, a database developed and maintained by the Deep-Sea Department and the French Oceanographic Data Centre at Ifremer, Brest.

Scope
Themes:
Biology
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Continental margins, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Ocean

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -172,25; MinLat: -70,3267 - MaxLong: 165,8; MaxLat: 80,1367 [WGS84]
World Ocean

Temporal coverage
1954 - 2008

Contributors
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), moredata creator
Menot, Lénaïck
Borremans, Catherine

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Levin, L.A. et al. (2000). Macrobenthic community structure within and beneath the oxygen minimum zone, NW Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Res., Part II, Top. Stud. Oceanogr. 47(1-2): 189-226. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0967-0645(99)00103-4

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2013-01-22
Information last updated: 2022-08-09
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy