Atlas of Shapes

The Atlas of Shapes includes an illustrative scheme of the shapes subdivided in “Simple Shapes” and “Complex Shapes”.

Clicking on a specific shape, users are able to see: the code and the name of the shape, the shape view (e.g., lateral, frontal, etc.) with the corresponding linear dimensions, the biovolume and surface area computational models with all the formulae associated. Clicking again on a specific shape, users will be redirected to all taxa present in the Atlas of Phytoplankton that are characterized by the selected shape.

Atlas of shapes and Atlas of phytoplankton are integrated and can be easily joint switching from taxonomic identification to morphological characterization of phytoplankton.

Date ( Creation): 2016

Date ( Revision): 2021

Status: On going / operational

Creator

Italian Agency for the Environmental Prevention and Protection · Centro Regionale Mare (CRM) - Bari - Elena Stanca

Creator

Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples (Italy) - Leonilde Rosselli

Custodian

LifeWatch ERIC Service Centre - Lucia Vaira

Point of contact

University of Salento, LifeWatch Italy - Alberto Basset

Keywords: functional traits

Keywords: atlas

Keywords: phytoplankton

Keywords: morphological traits

Keywords: shape

Keywords: biovolume

Keywords: surface area

Access constraints: License

Use limitation: Metadata records are freely available under a Public Domain (CC0 1.0) License; while the atlas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.