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Biogeographic data from BODC - British Oceanographic Data Centre [Biogeografische data van BODC - Brits Oceanografisch Datacentrum]
Citation
British Oceanographic Data Centre, UK. Biogeographic data from BODC. in : EurOBIS. http://www.marbef.org/data/eurobissearch.php?dataprovider=47, accessed on [date]. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1172
Contact: Moncoiffé, Gwenaëlle

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

Description
Partial contribution from the British Oceanographic Data Centre's databases (see below for details on status). more

This initial contribution is a subset of BODC's current taxonomic data holdings and only includes taxonomic data related to water bottle samples collected mainly in open ocean waters. Future contributions will extend the coverage of the data submission to shelf seas and data derived from net hauls and benthic surveys and sampling.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton, Geography
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Biogeography, Biota, Geographical distribution, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Waters, Biota

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -85,7438; MinLat: -70,3142 - MaxLong: 67,3056; MaxLat: 70,4167 [WGS84]
World Waters [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage
Biota [WoRMS]

Parameters
Count
Distribution

Contributors
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), moredata managerdata creatordata creator
Moncoiffé, Gwenaëlle
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2007-03-26
Information last updated: 2012-01-26
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