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Project details

Project name; Name of Branch/Client/subcontractant

African Biodiversity Information Centre (ABIC) Initiative

Linked to Expertise unit(s)

Parent unit: Royal Museum for Central Africa RMCA

Theme

Biodiversity, Climate

Timing

Timing not specified

Nature of expertise/action

Dissemination of information through internet; facilitate access to data banks

Field of expertise/action

African biology; study of changes in biodiversity

Brief Description of expertise/action ; commercial relationship

The laboratory wants to share the data on African biology through the African Biodiversity Information Centre (ABIC), an initiative launched after the signature of the Convention on Biological Diversity by Belgium (1992)

Main objectives; expected results

Facilitate access to biodiversity data banks; Disseminate information on the collections through internet and allow the entry of new data and on-line consultation by use of an interface; The collections contain information that allows the study of changes in biodiversity

ECA-CREAC Expertise Database - May 24, 2013