Portal Introduction

: One-stop Data Service of Marine Organisms

Last updated on Wed, 2018-01-24 15:59.

---

Protection and rational use of the marine biological resources in the Coral Triangle and neighboring coral reefs is important for livelihood and prosperity of the region. However, the biodiversity of the Coral Triangle and neighboring coral reefs is in danger of deterioration due to global warming and coastal development. Therefore, establishment of a conservation plan is an urgent task.

For conservation of biodiversity, information on the extent of the current biodiversity and its dynamics is required. Therefore, it is necessary to make an inventory of the marine organisms living in the Coral Triangle and neighboring coral reefs as precisely as possible using the genetic methods.

WESTPAC portal provides one-stop data service of marine organisms by integrating inventories made by the member countries complied with the standardized data schema. Each country can establish and update its own inventory of marine organism database using extended data schema according to its own purpose. WESTPAC portal can be operated successfully only when member countries contribute to supply their data to the portal consistently.