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Biodiversity Data Journal 13: e157371
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e157371 (31 Jul 2025)
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  • Introduction
  • State of the art: Existing sets of geounits in the marine realm
    • IHO – The International Hydrographic Organization
    • Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) and the “Marine Region” placetype at VLIZ
    • Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW) of Spalding et al. (2007) 
    • Regional schemes
    • IUCN bioregions
    • Longhurst pelagic provinces
    • Large marine ecosystems
    • FAO Major Fishing Areas for Statistical Purposes
    • Global biogeographic schemes
      • Data-driven regionalisation schemes
    • GOODS and Watling et al. (2023) regions for the deep sea
      • Regionalisation in the pelagic realm
  • Materials and methods
    • TDWG Interest Groups and Task Groups
    • Rationale for the definition of units
    • Genealogy of shapefiles
    • Syntax for geounits names and labels
    • Hierarchy in geounits
  • Results
    • The proposal
    • Higher level units
      • Level 1 units
      • Level 2 units
      • Level 3 units
      • Level 4: Basic recording units  
  • Discussion
  • Acknowledgements
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  • Supplementary files
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