Download your Antarctic Field Guide

  • 1.SELECT YOUR FORMAT
  • 2.PUBLISH IT (IF YOU WANT)
  • 3.FINISH AND DOWNLOAD

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Checklist

Provides the species names in a list format

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Complete

Provides all available information for your species

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About the Antarctic Field Guides

The Antarctic Field Guides is a collaborative tool offering free access to information that can help you identify Antarctic organisms. Thanks to the initial efforts from Prof. Andrew Clarke, Dr David Barnes (British Antarctic Survey) and Dr Stefano Schiaparelli (University of Genoa and Italian National Antarctic Museum), it allows users to build a tailor-made, customized guide, to be taken in the field or simply browsed. The pages are generated on-the-fly from the contents of authoritative, quality controlled data resources (SCAR-MarBIN, ANTABIF, RAMS, GBIF), and ensures the user to access up-to-date information about the group of organisms he/she is interested in. Even if the primary focus is for scientists, the AFGs are open and free for all to enjoy.

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    Quality information

    Access expert-validated data

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    Fully customizable

    You choose what information will be included in your guide

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    Downloadable & printable

    All information can be downloaded in printer-friendly format

How does it work?

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    Explore the taxonomy and places on the AFG website and add them to your Antarctic Field Guide.

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    You can also start your guide using an existing one as a template. Explore the available field guides submitted by other users.

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    Download your guide in PDF format and print it. And don’t forget to pack it in your next trip to Antarctic!.

Where does data come from?

You are building and sharing Antarctic Field Guides by using data from the following sources:

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    SCAR MarBIN

    Free and open access to Antarctic Marine Biodiversity data.

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    Panoramio

    Photo-sharing community. Discover the world through photos.

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    ANTABIF

    Free and open access to Antarctic biodiversity data.

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Can I reuse the data?

The content of the AFGs is under the CCBY licence. You are welcome to share or remix the content of the AFGs. For the moment, we kindly ask you to cite the source as ‘The SCAR Antarctic Field Guides. World Wide Web publication, available online at http://afg.biodiversity.aq

Some media content is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.