50th European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS50)

From September 21st-25th 2015, the LifeWatch Species Information Backbone and related data services were also presented at the 50th European Marine Biology Symposium (EMBS50) in Helgoland. In total 3 oral presentations were given: (1) Assessing the data quality, completeness and fitness for use of marine biogeographic data, (2) Creating a species information backbone: merging marine taxonomy, geography and ecology from various sources, and (3) A new online world database of over 1,400 introduced marine species as part of WoRMS.