BioMar-ACG: A successful partnership to inventory and promulgate marine biodiversity
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Oct 19, 2020 version files 3.15 MB
Abstract
Initiated in 2015, the marine inventory of Área de Conservación
Guanacaste (BioMar-ACG) is rapidly advancing knowledge of biodiversity. Key
aspects include: synergizing with parataxonomists, barcoding specimens and
making information available. After 85 years, 594 species were reported.
Now, after four years, BioMar-ACG documented 1,123 species, for a total of
1,479.
Individuals shown in photographs in this dataset have signed releases authorizing the use of their likenesses.