Bio-ORACLE is a set of GIS rasters providing geophysical, biotic and environmental data for surface and benthic marine realms. The data are available for global-scale applications at a spatial resolution of 5 arcmin (approximately 9.2 km at the equator).
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.
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Scientific article; https://ro.uow.edu.au/scipapers/1155
Government Report to UNCCD - prepared by the Dept. Economic Development and Environment. 2003
An essay by Nancy Viviani
Scientific journal - Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes : 138-139 (2014)