| Title |
Biodiversity's Big Wet Secret: The Global Distribution of Marine Biological Records Reveals Chronic Under-Exploration of the Deep Pelagic Ocean
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2010
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0010223 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Thomas J. Webb, Edward Vanden Berghe, Ron O'Dor |
| Abstract |
Understanding the distribution of marine biodiversity is a crucial first step towards the effective and sustainable management of marine ecosystems. Recent efforts to collate location records from marine surveys enable us to assemble a global picture of recorded marine biodiversity. They also effectively highlight gaps in our knowledge of particular marine regions. In particular, the deep pelagic ocean--the largest biome on Earth--is chronically under-represented in global databases of marine biodiversity. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 17% |
| Canada | 3 | 13% |
| United States | 2 | 8% |
| Korea, Democratic People's Republic of | 1 | 4% |
| Philippines | 1 | 4% |
| Portugal | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 11 | 46% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 79% |
| Scientists | 5 | 21% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 2% |
| Brazil | 5 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Argentina | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Mexico | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 1% |
| Unknown | 362 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 106 | 27% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 71 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 48 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 38 | 10% |
| Other | 19 | 5% |
| Other | 55 | 14% |
| Unknown | 57 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 189 | 48% |
| Environmental Science | 75 | 19% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 23 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 2% |
| Other | 20 | 5% |
| Unknown | 70 | 18% |