LifeWatch ERIC Metadata Catalogue
Bio-Oracle web portal
Linking biodiversity occurrence data to the physical and biotic environment provides a framework to formulate hypotheses about the ecological processes governing spatial and temporal patterns in biodiversity, which can be useful for marine ecosystem management and conservation.
Bio-ORACLE offers a user-friendly solution to accomplish this task by providing 19 global geophysical, biotic and climate layers at a common spatial resolution (5 arcmin) and a uniform landmask.
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Identification
- Date ( Creation )
- 2011-03-24
- Date ( Publication )
- 2011-03-24
- Date ( Revision )
- 2021-09-24
- Status
- On going / operational
- Version
- 2.4.2
- Keywords
- marine
- Keywords
- environmental
- Keywords
- modelling
- Keywords
- climate change
- Access constraints
- License
- Use limitation
- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
- Other constraints
- https://bio-oracle.org/explore-data.php#disclaimer
- OnLine resource
- R package 'sdmpredictors' ( R )
- OnLine resource
- Bio-Oracle Website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- Operation name
- Bio-Oracle dataset
- Web site
- https://bio-oracle.org/
- Description
- Bio-ORACLE is a set of GIS rasters providing geophysical, biotic and environmental data for surface and benthic marine realms.
- Function
- The Bio-ORACLE main purpose is to be used together with biological occurrence for fitting Species Distribution Models and predict future distribution of species.
- Topic Category
- Oceanographic geographical features
- Service Category
- data analysis
- Service Language
- eng
- Service TRL
- TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment
- Service Funding
- Bio-Oracle is maintained and developed by a consortium of researchers, data managers and IT personnel from 4 institutions: Flanders Marine Institute, University of Algarve, Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, University of Ghent. The maintenance and developments of the website and the database are carried out by the Flanders Marine Institute, currently with the funding of the LifeWatch Belgium project.
- Service Helpdesk
- https://bio-oracle.org/faq.php
