CRITTERBASE
In our times of increasing human impact on marine ecosystems, understanding, management and protection of these systems is a matter of great concern.
Research on marine biota and their interactions with each other and the environment is fundamental to address these challenges, but data and information are diverse and scattered. Hence, scientists, decision makers, and the public require a versatile tool to compile, synthesize and manage data on marine biota in a transparent, efficient and comprehensible way and with high level quality assurance.
We developed the ecological information system CRITTERBASE for this purpose.