What does OBIS stand for?

Ocean Biogeographic Information System

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Edward Vanden Berghe, who manages the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), the Census' inventory of marine life observations, said that, unsurprisingly, the number of species falls off dramatically at deeper depths.

Murky ocean depths hide abundance of life

According to Edward Vanden Berghe of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, the database has 5,722 species that are found deeper than 1,000 metres and 17,650 species for which all recorded observations are deeper than 200 metres -- the depth where darkness stops photosynthesis.

And you thought you were dumbo!

Murky ocean depths hide abundance of life