AquaMaps are computer-generated predictions of natural occurrence of marine species, based on the environmental tolerance of a given species with respect to depth, salinity, temperature, primary productivity, and its association with sea ice or coastal areas. These 'environmental envelopes' are matched against an authority file which contains respective information for the Oceans of the World. Independent knowledge such as distribution by FAO areas or bounding boxes are used to avoid mapping species in areas that contain suitable habitat, but are not occupied by the species.
Bio-ORACLE is a set of GIS rasters providing geophysical, biotic and environmental data for surface and benthic marine realms. The data are available for global-scale applications at a spatial resolution of 5 arcmin (approximately 9.2 km at the equator).
Linking biodiversity occurrence data to the physical and biotic environment provides a framework to formulate hypotheses about the ecological processes governing spatial and temporal patterns in biodiversity, which can be useful for marine ecosystem management and conservation.
Location and distribution of MPAs on the east side of Babeldaob. Data obtained from WDPA dataset
The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the most comprehensive global database of marine and terrestrial protected areas, updated on a monthly basis, and is one of the key global biodiversity data sets being widely used by scientists, businesses, governments, International secretariats and others to inform planning, policy decisions and management.
Data on the recovery of Palau's Coral Reefs
Data on Palau's Marine Biodiversity including data on Palau's marine protected areas
The Nature Conservancy’s Mapping Ocean Wealth Project: Modelling and mapping fishing pressure the current and potential standing stock of coral-reef fishes in five jurisdictions of Micronesia
Data on Reef Fish Recovery in countries and information is also useful for Palau's Reef Fish Biomass
Data on Palau's Reef Fish including information extracted from researches on reef fish in micronesia
Data on Marine Environments of Palau including published research on marine animals
Data on the Population Status of Marine Turtles in the pacific ocean. Information is useful also for Palau's marine turtles
Data on Palau's introduced marine species and impacts.
Data on impacts of human activities on Palau's Coral Reef
Data on Palau's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) including information on Ecological conditions of coral-reef and seagrass for marine protected areas in Palau
Data and Palau's modelling reports on coral bleaching and other marine threatening events
Socio-economic Baseline Studies in Palau including reports on Koror, Ngchesar, Ngiwal, Peleliu and Ngaraard States including the Ebiil Marine Protected Area (MPA).
Current State of Knowledge of Cetacean Threats, Diversity and Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region
Current State of Knowledge of Cetacean Threats, Diversity and Habitats in the Pacific Islands Region
A global review of species-specific shark-fin-to-body-mass ratios and relevant legislation
Marine pollution originating from purse seine and longline fishing vessel operations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, 2003-2015.
The data was collected by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's Observer Programme
This dataset contains information for Pacific island countries and territories to take a major step forward to protect our Pacific Ocean from marine litter.