Dataset

Lophelia pertusa reefs in Norwegian seawaters

OBIS-GBIF Norway Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Lophelia pertusa reefs dataset contains scientific registrations of reefs in Norwegian seawaters done by Institute of Marine Research through their own seabed mapping, registrations from MAREANO, information from fishermen, registrations from the oil industry and from scientific litterature.

Citation
Pål Buhl Mortensen; Institute of Marine Research, Norway (2016): Lophelia pertusa reefs in Norwegian seawaters.
Published
April 13, 2018 at 08:10
First registration
October 24, 2025 at 15:13
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/resource?r=imr_lophelia_pertusa_reefs
Archive
https://gbif.imr.no/ipt/archive.do?r=imr_lophelia_pertusa_reefs

Contacts

Pål Buhl-Mortensen
Institute of Marine Research

Kjell Bakkeplass

Arnfinn Morvik

1,418
total submitted occurrences
1,418
accepted occurrences
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 666
47.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,067
75.2%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,067
75.2%
occurrenceStatus 1,418
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,067
75.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 8
0.6%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 2
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data