Name: ICES Zooplankton Community dataset
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Biological zooplankton community data

Citation: ICES Environmental Database (DOME), Zooplankton community. Available online at http://eggsandlarvae.ices.dk. ICES, Copenhagen. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:54

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=dome-zooplankton

Contacts:

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Neil Holdsworth
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

737,161

occurrence records

3,938,856

measurements and facts

593

taxa

259

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	737,161		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	24,062		3.3%
minimumDepthInMeters	24,062		3.3%
scientificNameID		1,259	0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	58,993	8.0%
NO_DEPTH	24,062	3.3%
NOT_MARINE	5,299	0.7%
MARINE_UNSURE	2,728	0.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	2,507	0.3%
NO_MATCH	1,259	0.2%
ON_LAND	796	0.1%

ICES Zooplankton Community dataset

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data