The FishBase Information SystemCurrent coverage of Russian Biodiversity

and Opportunities for Collaboration

www.fishbase.org

Rainer Froese

Institute for Marine Research

Kiel, Germany

rfroese@ifm.uni-kiel.de

Overview

• Some Statistics

• FishBase Live

• Russian Biodiversity in FishBase

• Discussion

Some Statistics

FishBase Usage over Time

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Some StatisticsFishBase vs Internet Usage

Source for Internet growth: NUA Internet Services

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Some Statistics

FishBase Web Users

Individuals

Private sector

Universities

Governments

NGOs

Museums

Int. Research Centres

Based on >1500 entries in the FishBase Guest Book

Some Statistics

FishBase Users by Continent

North America

Europe

Asia

South America

Africa

Australia

Oceania

Some Statistics

FishBase Web Usage by Topic

Common Names

Scientific NamesSpecies

Summaries

Photos

FishBase Book

Fish Quiz

Specialist Topics

Frequency of FishBase Hits by Topic

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Exotic species

Genetics

Ichthyology course

Ecology

Physiology

Population dynamics

Reproduction

Identification keys

Quiz

Quick identification

Trophic ecology

Fish collections

FishBase book

FishWatchers

FishForum

Eggs & larvae

Catalog of Fishes

Maps

References

Glossary

Scientific names

Country info

Photos

Summary information

Common names

Percent of total hits (October 2002)(1 % = 2000 hits)

Some Statistics

Where is the Science?85 ISI Citations, 3 in Nature, 2 in Science

Fisheries

Ecology

Parasitology

Conservation

Genetics

PalaeontologyTaxonomy

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Some StatisticsFishBase Usage by Developing Countries

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Some StatisticsFishBase Usage Compared with Internet Usage by

Country, in 2001

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FishBase Facts

• 28,100 Species >>

• 6,000 Etymologies >>

• 1.5 Million Occurrence Data (fish collections) >>

• 1,500 Resilience Data >>

• 150,000 Common Names (Abborre) >>

• 33,000 Photos >>

New Tools

• Length-Frequency Wizard >>

• MyFish Wizard >>

• Disease Wizard >>

• Identification Keys >>

Rank Country Visitors

1 USA 278807

2 Japan 15511

3 Australia 13104

4 UK 10942

5 Brazil 10394

6 Canada 9744

7 France 9404

8 NL 8626

9 Italy 7987

10 Germany 6949

11 Singapore 6624

12 Mexico 5623

13 Sweden 4973

14 Spain 4574

15 Belgium 4286

16 Portugal 4100

17 Poland 3557

Rank Country Visitors

18 Finland 3488

19 Denmark 2918

20 Norway 2716

21 New Zealand 2375

22 Austria 2236

23 Taiwan 2125

24 Czech Rep. 2045

25 Greece 1997

26 Israel 1901

27 Argentina 1885

28 South Africa 1874

29 Thailand 1821

30 Switzerland 1794

31 Russian Fed. 1502

32 Turkey 1411

33 Indonesia 1363

FishBaseVisitors

in October

2003

Russian Fed. Biodiversity in FishBase

• 2800 Russian Common Names >>• 1384 Cyrillic Names >>• 839 Fishes of Russian Federation >>• 800 Cyrillic terms in Glossary >>• 160 Russian language publications used• 280 Occurrence points from Russian Fed. >>• 370 fishes without photos >>• 206 commercial fishes with missing data >>

Translation of FishBase

1. Translation of Search + Summary Page

2. Translation of about 300 Labels

3. Translation of Country Names

4. Translation of Family, Order, Class Names

5. Translation of Ecosystem Names

6. Special Dictionaries for Biology, Distribution and Diagnosis Fields

7. Examples >>

Questions?

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