Section outline

  • This use case demonstrates how to upload a list with marine place names (e.g. name of an EEZ, Ocean) in order to know which species have already been observed in these areas, and how many times (based on OBIS).

    It combines two web services in a fixed order: 1. Get lat-lon by accepted name and 2. Taxon list of a certain region.

    1. The web service 'Get lat-lon by accepted name' matches the uploaded place names (e.g. name of an EEZ, Ocean) to the MarineRegions gazetteer, and translates these place names into MRGIDs (Marine Regions Geographic IDentifier). The MRGID is added to the original input file as an extra column.
    NOTE: the MRGID can refer to a point location, a polygon or an envelop, but for the next step only polygons and envelops are taken into account.

    2. The web service 'Taxon list of a certain region' generates a marine species list derived from the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) for this MRGID. The ScientificName and AphiaID (the unique identifier of the World Register of Marine Species - WoRMS) are added to the original input file as extra columns.

    • Example Input File

      The input file is a text file containing one column: Location.