The FishBase Information System Current coverage of Russian Biodiversity and Opportunities for Colla

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The FishBase Information SystemCurrent coverage
of Russian Biodiversity and Opportunities for
Collaborationwww.fishbase.org

• Rainer Froese
• Institute for Marine Research
• Kiel, Germany
• rfroese_at_ifm.uni-kiel.de

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Overview

• Some Statistics
• FishBase Live
• Russian Biodiversity in FishBase
• Discussion

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Some Statistics
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Some Statistics
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Some StatisticsFishBase vs Internet Usage
Source for Internet growth NUA Internet Services
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Some Statistics
Based on gt1500 entries in the FishBase Guest Book
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Some Statistics
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Some Statistics
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Statistics
Some
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Where is the Science?85 ISI Citations, 3 in
Nature, 2 in Science
IT
June 2002
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Some Statistics
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Some Statistics
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FishBase Facts

• 28,100 Species gtgt
• 6,000 Etymologies gtgt
• 1.5 Million Occurrence Data (fish collections) gtgt
• 1,500 Resilience Data gtgt
• 150,000 Common Names (Abborre) gtgt
• 33,000 Photos gtgt

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New Tools

• Length-Frequency Wizard gtgt
• MyFish Wizard gtgt
• Disease Wizard gtgt
• Identification Keys gtgt

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Rank Country Visitors 1 USA 278807 2 Japan
15511 3 Australia 13104 4 UK
10942 5 Brazil 10394 6 Canada
9744 7 France 9404 8 NL 8626 9 Italy
7987 10 Germany 6949 11 Singapore
6624 12 Mexico 5623 13 Sweden
4973 14 Spain 4574 15 Belgium
4286 16 Portugal 4100 17 Poland 3557

• Rank Country Visitors
• 18 Finland 3488
• 19 Denmark 2918
• 20 Norway 2716
• 21 New Zealand 2375
• 22 Austria 2236
• 23 Taiwan 2125
• 24 Czech Rep. 2045
• 25 Greece 1997
• 26 Israel 1901
• 27 Argentina 1885
• 28 South Africa 1874
• 29 Thailand 1821
• 30 Switzerland 1794
• 31 Russian Fed. 1502
• 32 Turkey 1411
• Indonesia 1363

FishBase Visitors in October 2003
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Russian Fed. Biodiversity in FishBase

• 2800 Russian Common Names gtgt
• 1384 Cyrillic Names gtgt
• 839 Fishes of Russian Federation gtgt
• 800 Cyrillic terms in Glossary gtgt
• 160 Russian language publications used
• 280 Occurrence points from Russian Fed. gtgt
• 370 fishes without photos gtgt
• 206 commercial fishes with missing data gtgt

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Translation of FishBase

• Translation of Search Summary Page
• Translation of about 300 Labels
• Translation of Country Names
• Translation of Family, Order, Class Names
• Translation of Ecosystem Names
• Special Dictionaries for Biology, Distribution
  and Diagnosis Fields
• Examples gtgt

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