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Documenting marine species traits in the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): current status, future plans and encountered challenges Flanders Marine Institute
- The importance of describing species patterns and the underlying processes explaining these patterns is essential to assess the status and future evolution of marine ecosystems. This requires biological information on functional and structural species traits such as feeding ecology, body size, reproduction, life history, etc.To accommodate this need, the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (WoRMS Editorial Board 2017) is expanding ...
Development of a Marine Biological Data Portal within the framework of the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODNet) Flanders Marine Institute
A World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) for use in marine and biodiversity data management Flanders Marine Institute
The Coastal and Marine Wiki: an Internet encyclopaedia providing up-todate high quality information for and by coastal and marine professionals Flanders Marine Institute
Unlocking Marine Genetic Resources: Streamlining the Legal, Policy and Business Aspects of the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline KU Leuven
Marine organisms have the capacity to produce a variety of biologically potent natural products, including antimicrobial and anticancer compounds. With much of the biodiversity in the ocean still unknown and rapid progress being made in the field of marine exploration technology, there is significant potential for the discovery of novel biological resources with applications in medicine. Rates of marine resource exploitation are therefore likely ...