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ICES Zoobenthos Community dataset
Citation
ICES Environmental Database (DOME), Zoobenthos community. Available online at http://dome.ices.dk. ICES, Copenhagen. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/4425
Contact: Holdsworth, Neil

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Notes: ICES Data Policy: https://www.ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx

Description
Biological zoobenthos community data

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Benthos > Zoobenthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · ANE, Baltic · ANE, North Sea · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Community diversity · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · European · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Baltic Sea · North East Atlantic · North Sea

Geographical coverage
Baltic Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -26,0833; MinLat: 15,6333 - MaxLong: 28,8072; MaxLat: 67,5867 [WGS84]
North East Atlantic [Marine Regions]
North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1979 on [In Progress]
23 May 1979 - 4 December 2023 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Parameters
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), moredata managerdata creator
Holdsworth, Neil

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
DOME - community: ICES Biological community dataset
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2018-04-16
Metadatarecord created: 2013-10-31
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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