By downloading or consulting data from this website, the visitor acknowledges that he/she agrees with the MarBEF data policy, and agrees to the following:
If data are extracted from the MarBEF website for secondary analysis resulting in a publication, the MarBEF website should be cited. Online MarBEF databases should be cited as follows:
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2008). European Register of Marine Species. http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php. Consulted on 2024-11-23
[previously: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Emblow, C.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2004). European Register of Marine Species. Available online at http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php. Consulted on date].
MarBEF (2004). European node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Available online at http://www.eurobis.org. Consulted on 2024-11-23.
If any individual datasource of MarBEF constitutes a significant proportion of the records used in the secondary analysis (e.g., more than 10% of the data are derived from this source), the individual data source should also be cited.
If any individual datasource of MarBEF constitutes a substantial proportion of the records used in the secondary analysis (i.e. more than 25% of the data are derived from this source, or the data are essential to arrive at the conclusion of the analysis), the manager/custodian of this dataset should be contacted. It may be useful to contact the data source directly in case there are additional data that may strengthen the analysis or there are features of the data that are important to consider but may not have been apparent from the metadata.
