Seamounts Online V.2005-1

SeamountsOnline is an NSF-funded project that holds records of species that have been collected from underwater seamounts, guyots and ridges, along with some accessory information about when, where and how the samples were collected. The contents of SeamountsOnline is constantly growing as we find and incorporate new sources of data. At present, the system holds 5124 records on 1348 species and 86 seamounts. The purpose of Seamounts Online is to gather information on species found in seamount habitats, and to provide a freely-available online resource for searching, downloading, mapping, and analyzing patterns of biogeography in these data. It is designed to facilitate research into seamount ecology, and to act as a resource for managers. Information was obtained from "http://seamounts.sdsc.edu/". In the course of developing SeamountsOnline, over 1,000 literature citations have been collected relating to seamounts. The coverage is most comprehensive for biological sampling on seamounts. Geology, hydrology, chemistry, etc. are also represented, but the coverage is not as thorough. The bibliography can be searched for references of interest or downloaded as whole through the Search References feature.