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Citizen science in the Algarve

So far, citizens reported occurrence records of marine biodiversity in the Algarve.

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The biodiversity database of the Algarve Marine Observatory (OMA) is structured under Darwin Core standards. This offers a stable, straightforward and flexible framework for sharing biodiversity data from multiple sources.

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