1. The FishBase Information System Current coverage of Russian Biodiversity and Opportunities for Collaboration www.fishbase.org Rainer Froese Institute for Marine Research Kiel, Germany rfroese@ifm.uni-kiel.de

2. Overview Some Statistics FishBase Live Russian Biodiversity in FishBase Discussion

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5. Some Statistics FishBase vs Internet Usage Source for Internet growth: NUA Internet Services

6. Some Statistics Based on >1500 entries in the FishBase Guest Book

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10. Where is the Science? 85 ISI Citations, 3 in Nature, 2 in Science IT June 2002

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13. 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 >>>>

14. New Tools Length-Frequency Wizard >>>> MyFish Wizard >>>> Disease Wizard >>>> Identification Keys >>>>

15. RankCountryVisitors 1USA278807 2Japan 15511 3Australia 13104 4UK 10942 5Brazil 10394 6Canada 9744 7France 9404 8NL 8626 9Italy 7987 10Germany 6949 11Singapore 6624 12Mexico 5623 13Sweden 4973 14Spain 4574 15Belgium 4286 16Portugal 4100 17Poland 3557 RankCountryVisitors 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 FishBase Visitors in October 2003

16. 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 >>>>

17. 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 >>>>

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