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Exploring marine life

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Title Exploring marine life
 
Creator Nair, V.R.
 
Description Sea abounds in a variety of plant and animal life. Census of Marine Life (CoML), a global program aims to understand the diversity, geographic distribution and abundance of marine species from pole to pole covering estuarine, coastal and oceanic waters from surface to abyss. Census of Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ) is a project under CoML works towards a taxonomically comprehensive assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world oceans. Zooplankton, the secondary producers are the drifting animal population in the water column and are critical intermediaries in the flow of energy and matter through marine ecosystem. The global census of marine zooplankton will make use of existing data, archived zooplankton collections and additional sampling from under sampled regions and biodiversity hotspots. A primary product of CMarZ will be a distributed database of species names, collection information, vouchers and specimen location, DNA sequences, images and other information. CMarZ data will be fully integrated with, and searchable from the Ocean Biogeographical Information System (OBIS) Portal. The CMarZ Network is an association of zooplankton taxonomists, ecologists and oceanographers. Education, professional training and capacity building are major objectives of CMarZ considering the dwindling number of taxonomic experts in Zooplankton. CMarZ will focus on generation of new sampling technologies, new analytical tools and global scale understanding by 2010. The expected important outcome of CMarZ are more complete knowledge of biodiversity, new understanding of the functional role of biodiversity in ocean ecosystems and better characterization of global scale patterns of zooplankton biodiversity in the world oceans.
 
Date 2006-06-23T09:58:19Z
2006-06-23T09:58:19Z
2006
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Science Repoter, vol. 43(5), 9-15p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/150
 
Language en
 
Format 731394 bytes
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Publisher NISCAIR, CSIR