Census of Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life

Census of the Diversity of Abyssal Marine Life ( CeDAMar ) is a science project to record the biodiversity in the deep sea. Even the project called census in the ocean basins. CeDAMar examined from 2000 to 2010 largely unexplored abyssal basins. The project involves 56 institutions were involved in 17 countries.

Research results

Under the roof of CeDAMar a number of individual projects were combined for biogeography and taxonomy. It published more than 300 scientific articles in the course of the project. To remedy the severe lack of official species descriptions, it was one of the main objectives of CeDAMar to describe the 500 most common abyssal species by 2010.

CeDAMar institutions in Germany

  • Ag. Zoosystematik and Morphology, University of Oldenburg
  • Zoological Institute and Museum, University of Hamburg ( ZIM)
  • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven
  • Senckenberg Research Institute - German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research, Wilhelmshaven
  • IFM- GEOMAR, Institute of Oceanography, Kiel
  • University of Osnabrück
  • Museum of Natural History, Berlin
  • Special Zoology, Ruhr- University Bochum
  • Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne
  • Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt
  • Zoological Institute of the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich

Publications

Besides a large number of scientific articles published in 2010 a reading book to CeDAMar project. The editors Michael Rex and Ron Etter of the University of Massachusetts in Boston were both in the Scientific Steering Committee of CeDAMar. In the book, the biodiversity of the deep sea is represented in space and time. A number of the results of CeDAMar were included in the book.

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