Future Actions
Through research collaboration and partnerships, the CoML-Caribbean will continue strengthening the marine biodiversity network in the region by coordinating its current and future efforts and maintaining the linkage with CoML international projects and committees.
The Caribbean scientific community has agreed that there are specific needs in the region regarding marine biodiversity, both, at an immediate term and within the next decade such as taxonomic expertise, new inventories of species, exploration of unstudied habitats, coordination of field studies, management of specimen collections, production of electronic databases and establishment of a regional network of collaboration, information exchange and fund raising.
Within the next two years, the group will focus on the production of the Caribbean chapter of the Regional Marine Biodiversity book to be developed and synthesized according to a standard outline for all the regions involved in the CoML program. This product will be one of the 2010 contributions of the first Census of Marine Life (2000-2010).
