Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life
Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life (CeDAMar) is a scientific project to record biodiversity in the deep sea. The project describes itself as a census in the deep sea basins . CeDAMar examined largely unexplored abyssal basins from 2000 to 2010 . 56 institutions in 17 countries were involved in the project.
research results
A number of individual projects on biogeography and taxonomy have been combined under the CeDAMar umbrella . Over 300 scientific articles appeared in the course of the project. In order to remedy the great lack of official species descriptions, one of the most important goals of CeDAMar was to describe the 500 most common abyssal species by 2010.
CeDAMar institutions in Germany
- Ag. Zoo systematics and morphology, University of Oldenburg
- Zoological Institute and Museum of the University of Hamburg (ZIM)
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
- Senckenberg Research Institute - German Center for Marine Biodiversity Research, Wilhelmshaven
- IFM-Geomar , Institute for Oceanography, Kiel
- University of Osnabrück
- Museum of Natural History , Berlin
- Special zoology, Ruhr University Bochum
- Zoological Institute, University of Cologne
- Senckenberg Research Institute , Frankfurt
- Zoological Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
Publications
In addition to a large number of scientific articles, a reader on the CeDAMar project was published in 2010. The editors Michael Rex and Ron Etter of the University of Massachusetts at Boston were both on CeDAMar's Scientific Steering Committee . The book shows the biodiversity of the deep sea in space and time. A number of the results from CeDAMar were incorporated into the book.
Individual evidence
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