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State of Environment and Conservation in the Pacific Islands - 2020 Regional Report
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This first state of the environment report for the Pacific region uses regional environment indicators to assess the status, trends, and data quality and availability for the endorsed...
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Regional Environmental Indicator Assessments : 2020 Report
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This dataset hosts 31 individual environmental indicator assessments that are in the State of Environment and Conservation in the Pacific Islands : 2020 Regional report. Regional...
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Modelled Global Distribution of the Seagrass Biome - United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This is a MaxEnt model map of the global distribution of the seagrass biome. Species occurrence records were extracted from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), United...
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Global Distribution of Modelled Mangrove Biomass - United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This dataset shows the modelled global patterns of above-ground biomass of mangrove forests. The dataset was developed by the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, with support...
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Global Distribution of Coral Reefs - United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This dataset shows the global distribution of coral reefs in tropical and subtropical regions. It is the most comprehensive global dataset of warm-water coral reefs to date, acting as a...
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Global Distribution of Cold-water Corals - United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This dataset shows the global distribution of cold-water corals. Occurrence records are given for 86 Families under the subclass Octocorallia (octocorals; also known as Alcyonaria) and...
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Marine Bioregions of the Southwest Pacific - Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Management in Pacific Island Countries (MACBIO)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Bioregions, of course, are just one of the important data layers in indentifying an ecologically representative system of marine protected areas. To be truly ecologically representative...
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Deep Water Fisheries Catch - Sea Around Us
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Sea Around Us is a research initiative at The University of British Columbia (located at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, formerly Fisheries Centre) that assesses the...
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Aggregated Catch/Effort Data - Western and Central Fisheries Commission
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Western and Central Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) have compiled a public domain version of aggregated catch and effort data using operational, aggregate and annual catch estimates data...
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Ocean Data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
MODIS (or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) is a key instrument aboard the Terra (originally known as EOS AM-1) and Aqua (originally known as EOS PM-1) satellites. Terra's...
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Ocean Currents - Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real-time (OSCAR)
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
OSCAR (Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real-time) contains near-surface ocean current estimates, derived using quasi-linear and steady flow momentum equations. The horizontal velocity is...
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Global Mangrove Distribution - Global Mangrove Watch
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) is a collaboration between Aberystwyth University (U.K.), solo Earth Observation (soloEO; Japan), Wetlands International the World Conservation Monitoring...
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Volcanoes of the World - Global Volcanism Program
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) is housed in the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington D.C. We are devoted to a...
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Global Distribution of Seamounts and Knolls
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
This dataset shows the global distribution of seamounts and knolls identified using global bathymetric data at 30 arc-sec resolution. A total of 33,452 seamounts and 138,412 knolls were...
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Global Seafloor Geomorphic Features - Blue Habitats
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Conservation International, GRID-Arendal and Geoscience Australia recently collaborated to produce a map of the global distribution of seafloor geomorphic features. The global seafloor...
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General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
GEBCO's aim is to provide the most authoritative publicly-available bathymetry of the world's oceans. It operates under the joint auspices of the International Hydrographic...
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Bio-ORACLE 2.1 - Marine data layers for ecological modelling
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Bio-ORACLE is a set of GIS rasters providing geophysical, biotic and environmental data for surface and benthic marine realms. The data are available for global-scale applications at a...
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International Seabed Authority Annual Report 2020
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
Minerals are non-renewable resources (at least within human timeframes) but mining them is now apparently a sustainable enterprise, not a one-way street of exploitation. ISA provides an...
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Allen Coral Atlas
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Allen Coral Atlas combines high resolution satellite imagery, machine learning and field data to produce globally consistent benthic and geomorphic maps of the world's coral reefs....
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World Reef Map – Global Coral Reef Atlas
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) Publications
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has completed the World Reef Map, an online interactive coral reef atlas that allows users to explore all of the coral reefs and shallow...