Table 1.
Examples of the same names being used for different species (including a marine species) found by Rees [114].
Figure 1.
Some of the WoRMS editors at workshops in Ostend in 2008 (upper panel) and Aberdeen in 2011.
Figure 2.
The approximate present geographic coverage of the larger Regional Species Databases (i.e. all-species inventories) within WoRMS.
Table 2.
The Global Species Databases hosted within WoRMS. Those with their own web entry page are underlined.
Table 3.
The (a) Regional Species Databases (RSD) and (b) Thematic Species Databases (TSD), hosted within WoRMS, and their editors.
Table 4.
The countries and institutes represented by the editors of WoRMS and its associated databases. These are mapped at http://www.marinespecies.org/imis.php?module=gmap&spcolid=507.
Figure 3.
Annual numbers of taxa names (species and above including synonyms), accepted species names, vernacular names, distribution data, and specimens, added to WoRMS and its precursor ERMS.
Table 5.
The number of marine (a) taxa (infra-species and above), (b) species names (includes synonyms), (c) accepted species names (excluding synonyms); and (d) additional non-marine species in the WoRMS database (note that there are additional non-marine species of many taxa not in WoRMS).
Table 6.
Examples of possible applications of the WoRMS web service.
Table 7.
Examples of how WoRMS links with other online biodiversity resources.
Figure 4.
The number of organisations using WoRMS for their research and/or data management as listed in Table 9.
Figure 5.
The annual use of the WoRMS website since January 2007 in terms of pages viewed and web page hits (left axis), and numbers of visits, unique visitors and bandwidth (MB) (right axis).
The data for 2012 are estimated based on the trend until October.
Table 8.
Some of the organisations using the WoRMS web service for their data management systems and/or research.
Table 9.
Organisations with licensed copies of WoRMS for their research and/or data management.