Shifting Baselines toolset, "Backflash files" and Database Search Tool

Database Search Tool
The Workpackage 2 Search Tool is an easy to use, visual aid for investigating Shifting Baseline information.
The Search Engine provides a resource that is customisable by the User and may be employed for the purposes that the User needs it. It provides simple, effective and quick access to scientifically and historically verifiable Shifting Baselines information.
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Backflash Files
Data collected by WP2 partners has highlighted temporal change in the spatial distribution, abundance, diversity and individual size of selected species in particular ecosystems. These research highlights are listed below and presented in concise form in the pages that follow below.

(1) Spatial Distribution: Peruvian Hake since 1970
IMARPE (Peru)

(2) Abundance: ‘Then and Now’: decline in demersal fish biomass in the Colombian Caribbean Sea, UNAL (Colombia)

(3) Size of Individuals: Size Matters! The rapid decline of whiting in the North Sea, UNIABDN (UK)

(4) Species Diversity: Highlighting 400 years of shifting species distribution
RUC (Denmark)