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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>AquaMaps Home</title> <link rel='stylesheet' href='//www.aquamaps.org/css/fishbase.css' type='text/css'><link rel='stylesheet' href='//www.aquamaps.org/css/search_new.css' type='text/css'></head> <div id='wrapper'> <body class="body_1" onload="init()">  <div id= 'header_flex' class="padTop5"> <div id='amLogo'> <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org"><img src='http://www.aquamaps.org/pic/aquamaps.png' height='80' border='0'></a> <span class="arial11" style="color:#203C88; vertical-align: 15px;">ver. 10/2019</span> </div> <div id='header-text-no-sponsor' class="padTop5"> <span>Standardized distribution maps for over 33,500 species of fishes, marine mammals and invertebrates</span> <br> <br> <p> <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org/main/home.php">Home</a>  |   <a href='http://www.aquamaps.org/main/FB_Book_MarineAquaMaps_062023.pdf#page=1'>About AquaMaps</a>  |  <a href='http://www.aquamaps.org/AquaMapsUserManual_2016.pdf'>CYOM User Manual</a>  |  <a title="With download option" href="http://www.aquamaps.org/main/envt_data.php">Environmental Data</a>  |  <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org/search.php#tools">Tools</a>  |  <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org/main/services.php">Services</a>  |  <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org/main/hints.php">Hints</a>  |    <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org/preMap2.php?cache=1">Reviewed Maps</a>  |  <br> <span style="margin-top:5px; display:block;"></span> <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org/main/TermsConditions.php">Terms & Conditions</a>  |  <a href="http://www.aquamaps.org/main/publications.php">Publications</a> </p> </div> </div> <br>  <br><br><br><br><br><br> <table width="80%" class="ptitle"> <tr><td>Creating Standardized Range Maps for Eventually All Species in the Oceans</td></tr> </table> <table width="80%" class="plinks3"> <tr> <td class="plinks3"> AquaMaps are computer-generated predictions of natural occurrence of marine species, based on the environmental tolerance of a given species with respect to depth, salinity, temperature, primary productivity, and its association with sea ice or coastal areas. These 'environmental envelopes' are matched against an authority file which contains respective information for the Oceans of the World. Independent knowledge such as distribution by FAO areas or bounding boxes are used to avoid mapping species in areas that contain suitable habitat, but are not occupied by the species. Maps show the color-coded likelihood of a species to occur in a half-degree cell, with about 50 km side length near the equator. Experts are able to review, modify and approve maps. <br><br> Environmental envelopes are created in part (FAO areas, bounding boxes, depth ranges) from respective information in species databases such as <a href="//fishbase.org">FishBase</a> and <a href="//sealifebase.org/">SeaLifeBase</a> and in part from occurrence records available from <a href="//gbif.org">GBIF</a> or <a href="//obis.org">OBIS</a>. AquaMaps predictions have been validated successfully for a number of species using independent data sets and the model was shown to perform equally well or better than other standard species distribution models, when faced with the currently existing suboptimal input data sets (<a href="//doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.10.025">Ready et al. 2010</a>). </td> </tr> </table>  <br> <table width="80%" class="p_remark1"> <tr><td colspan="2" class="t_value1B">Contacts</td></tr> <tr><td class='plinks3' width="60%">Gabriel Reygondeau, coordinator</td></tr> <tr><td class='plinks3'>    E-mail: <a href="mailto:gabriel.reygondeau@miami.edu" target="_blank" class="plinks3">gabriel.reygondeau@miami.edu</a></td></tr> <tr><td class='plinks3'>    Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aquamap" target="_blank" class="plinks3">@aquamap</a></td></tr> <tr><td class='plinks3'>    Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Nuestracr" target="_blank" class="plinks3">@nuestracr</a></td></tr> <tr><td class='plinks3'>Kristin Kaschner, model development</td></tr> <tr></tr> <tr></tr> <tr><td class='plinks3'>    Contact: the <a href="mailto:info.aquamaps@gmail.com">AquaMaps team</a></td></tr>  </table>    <br> <div class='label'> <table border="0"> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="3" class="ptitle">AquaMaps is supported by:<br> </td> </tr> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%">CSIRO<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">GBIF<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">Ocean Biodiversity Information System<br></td> </tr> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//www.csiro.au" target="_blank"><img height="90px" src="../pic/logo/csiro.jpg"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//gbif.org" target="_blank"><img height="70px" src="../pic/logo/gbif.png"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//obis.org" target="_blank"><img height="90px" src="../pic/logo/obis.jpg"></a></td> </tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <tr><td align="center" colspan="3" class="ptitle">AquaMaps received support from:<br> </td></tr> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%">BioFresh<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">D4Science<br></td> </tr> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//www2.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/" target="_blank"><img height="100px" src="../pic/logo/biofresh.gif"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//www.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/" target="_blank"><img height="100px" src="../pic/logo/hexacorals.jpeg"></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><img src="../pic/logo/d4science.gif"></td> </tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <br> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%">EU BON<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">European Commission<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">IncoFish<br></td> </tr> <tr class="f_lhead" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//eubon.eu" target="_blank"><img height="60px" src="../pic/logo/eubon.png"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//ec.europa.eu/info/index_en" target="_blank"><img src="../pic/logo/eu_logo2.gif" height="70px"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><img src="../pic/logo/incofish_logo.gif"></td> </tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <br> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%">iMarine<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">The Pew Fellows Program in<br>Marine Conservation</font><br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">Sea Around Us<br></td> </tr> <tr class="f_lhead" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//i-marine.eu" target="_blank"><img src="../pic/logo/iMarine.png"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//pewtrusts.org" target="_blank"><img height="50px" src="../pic/logo/pew.png"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//seaaroundus.org/" target="_blank"><img height="70px" src="../pic/logo/seaaroundus.png"></a></td> </tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <br> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%">U.S. Geological Survey<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">WorldFish Center<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for <br>Ocean Research Kiel</td> </tr> <tr class="f_lhead" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//usgs.gov/" target="_blank"><img src="../pic/logo/usgs.jpg"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//worldfishcenter.org/" target="_blank"><img height="90px" src="../pic/logo/WorldFish.jpg"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//geomar.de/en/" target="_blank"><img height="90px" src="../pic/logo/GEOMAR.gif"></a></td> </tr> <tr><td> </td></tr> <br> <tr class="label" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%"><br></td> <td align="center" width="33%">Alfred Wegener Institute<br></td> <td align="center" width="33%"></td> </tr> <tr class="f_lhead" valign="top"> <td align="center" width="33%"></td> <td align="center" width="33%"><a href="//awi.de//" target="_blank"><img height="70px" src="../pic/logo/AWI_Logo.jpg"></a></td> <td align="center" width="33%"></td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br><br> </body> </html>

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