A new paper describing the World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS) initiative (http://www.marinespecies.org/worcs/), a new Thematic Species Database of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), supported by LifeWatch Belgium and LifeWatchGreece, has come out:
Gerovasileiou V, Martínez A, Álvarez F,Boxshall G, Humphreys W, Jaume D, Becking L, Muricy G, van Hengstum P, DekeyzerS, Decock W, Vanhoorne B, Vandepitte L, Bailly N, Iliffe T (2016) World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS): a new Thematic Species Database formarine and anchialine cave biodiversity. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e10451.doi: 10.3897/rio.2.e10451
The paper can be accessed through the link: http://rio.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=10451
Apress release regarding the WoRCS initiative was also published in EurekAlert
(http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-09/pp-smc091316.php)
and RIO blog
(http://blog.riojournal.com/2016/09/13/scattered-marine-cave-biodiversity-data-to-find-home-in-new-database-worcs-project-report/).
