Dataset

Marine Recorder JNCC Public Offshore Snapshot 2020_1 – habitat data trial

OBIS UK MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Extract of the publicly available offshore UK marine benthic data holdings of JNCC (Joint Nature Conservation Committee), held within the “Marine Recorder” data management system. Data comprises multi-thematic benthic surveys in the offshore, including both taxa occurrence and abundance alongside physical and biotope recordings. This dataset is being used as a pilot study into submitting fully classified biotope data into OBIS alongside associated taxonomic occurrences under the EU EMODnet initiative.

Citation: Marine Recorder Offshore Public snapshot 2020_1 – Available on request from JNCC or accessible as part of the UK public snapshot from https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/marine-recorder/

Published: February 13, 2021 at 13:09

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=jncc_offshore_snapshot_habitat

Contacts:

Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)
Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC)

DASSH
DASSH

Data Team

245,028
occurrence records
2,286,403
measurements and facts
2,710
taxa
1,761
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 245,028
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 104,323
42.6%
minimumDepthInMeters 169,042
69.0%
scientificNameID 7,984
3.3%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 73,556
30.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 7,869
3.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 784
0.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 234
0.1%
NO_MATCH 24
0.0%
NOT_MARINE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data