An On-line Atlas of Marine Diversity and a growing inventory of others

Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals ( An on-line information resource system that consists of two interactive databases one dealing with taxonomy and biogeography of hexacorals (corals, sea anemones, and their allies) one dealing with environmental information for the marine environment CHANGING THE WAY WE DO RESEARCH -- THE POWER OF FEDERATION

Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals ( linked by front ends offering user support for searching, analyzing, and downloading the data Useful biological ‘databases’ cannot be just collections of numbers – nor can the databases that support and interact with them!

Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals ( CAPTURING THE PRINT (OR MUSEUM) RECORD Interactivity Accessibility More is known than we know is known -- elucidate that so we can spend our effort discovering what is TRULY unknown

Occurrence records displayed on a map use symbols of a different color for each synonymous name. This function can be used for investigating whether a synonymy is justified. “Hexacoral” as a research tool

For taxa with georeferenced records, a query of the companion global 30’ environmental database produces summaries of general environmental conditions for individual entries or a summary for the taxon

“Hexacoral” as a research tool to predict other places the species might occur, including habitats that might be vulnerable to invasion

Anemones of most species seldom occur without fish symbionts Anemonefish never occur without a host anemone “Hexacoral” as a research tool

87 half-degree cells contain 516 usable anemone records

There is good overlap. Non-overlap is because of biological reality (fish do not occur in Hawaii), and sources of data (e.g. publications on anemonefish in Japan are not vouchered by specimens, research on anemones is scarce in South Africa)

Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals