The data were collected by the IBSS staff at 18 stations in the North-Western part of the Black Sea during August 1957 (Cruise 1). This dataset contains abundance (individuals per liter) and biomass (mg/m³) data for phytoplankton taxa. No additional metadata is available.

Citation: IBSS. 1957. Phytoplankton data collected from the North-Western part of the Black Sea during August 1957 (Cruise 1). Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/63

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:31

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=phytoplankton_blacksea_west_1957

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas

Kseniia Skuratova
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas

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

1,197

occurrence records

100

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,197		100.0%
scientificNameID		29	2.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	159	13.3%
MARINE_UNSURE	133	11.1%
NO_MATCH	29	2.4%

Phytoplankton data collected from the North-Western part of the Black Sea during August 1957 (Cruise 1)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data