The SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity Portal update 2024

This Background Paper provides an overview of the most recent activities of the SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity Portal (biodiversity.aq). An initial report on the 2023 workshop on Essential Variables (EVs) is now available online. In addition, the biodiversity.aq portal is now accessible in all four official CCAMLR languages. The SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity portal team worked together with the SCAR Expert Group on Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics (EG-ABI) on the SCAR DistAnt Ecological Model Output Repository. Finally, this paper provides an overview of new datasets, including those published in the Topical Collection of the Biodiversity Data Journal.