Concept information
Preferred term
BIOTAS
Definition
- The BIOTAS Programme was established in the late 1980's to coordinate terrestrial, limnological and littoral biological and related environmental research in the Antarctic. BIOTAS is a body of interacting scientists with common interests and goals who exchange ideas and information to ensure awareness of current and proposed research. This is to help maximise the value of their own research and to minimise the duplication of effort and the wasting of resources. The objectives of BIOTAS include the encouragement of collaboration and, where desirable, replication of research studies using standardised procedures. Also, to encourage research studies to follow a more unified approach, so that national programmes may complement each other and permit a more valid comparison of data between localities and systems. To facilitate this, BIOTAS has produced a manual of methods to aid standardisation and inter-comparability (Wynn-Williams, 1992). As yet, there is no computer network linking members of BIOTAS. However, the Microbial Strain Data Network is already used by the British Antarctic Survey to hold data on microbial cultures and its use may well be extended to include other data sets of relevance to BIOTAS. (en)
Broader concept
- A - C (en)
URI
https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/f75bc31f-afda-45f4-bc90-226b7b0ee818
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