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AMA: African Marine Atlas

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Description
The purpose of the African Marine Atlas (AMA) is to identify, collect and organize available geospatial datasets into an atlas of environmental themes for Africa, under the sponsorship of the ODINAFRICA Project of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's (IOC) International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Programme. The African Marine Atlas will include and involve a number of other geo-spatial data projects on and around the African continent.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Birds, Biology > Fish, Biology > Macroalgae, Biology > Mammals, Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton, Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Algae, Aquaculture, Chlorophyll, Coral, Exotics, Fish, Invasive species, Mangroves, Phytoplankton, Vegetation, Zooplankton, Africa

Geographical coverage

Project
AMA: African Marine Atlas, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2012-09-14
Information last updated: 2014-11-03
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