Macroalgal Herbarium Portal

The Macroalgal Herbarium Portal (http://macroalgae.org) is a collaboratively compiled datastore established to assist biological collections in digitizing, managing, and publishing macroalgal research data. It also provides tools for researcher, educators, and students to visualize macroalgal distribution patterns and changes in community structure resulting from environmental changes or species introductions. It is built upon an integrated dataset of a million macroalgal specimen records actively curated within more than 50 different institutions across North America and the Pacific.