Name: Finnish Baltic Sea benthic monitoring, POHJE database
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The POHJE database includes data on benthic macrofauna, covering the Finnish coastal areas as well as the offshore areas of the Baltic Sea. The quantitative data mainly stem from the Finnish national monitoring program and statutory monitoring programs, but also data from surveys and research projects are included. In total the database contain aproximately 135 000 quantitative records including developmental stages, with a time span from 1964 to present. The database is regularly maintained and data is added continuously.

Citation

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke); (2026); Finnish Baltic Sea benthic monitoring, POHJE database

Published

February 11, 2026 at 10:56

License

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

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=pohjedatabase

Contacts

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)
Finnish Environment Institute (Syke)

Henrik Nygård
Finnish Environment Institute (FEI/SYKE)

137,948

total submitted occurrences

128,584

accepted occurrences

430,478

measurements and facts

391

taxa

154

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	137,948		100.0%
scientificNameID	7,437		5.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
MARINE_UNSURE	7,936	5.8%
NOT_MARINE	5,538	4.0%
ON_LAND	4,271	3.1%
NO_MATCH	3,826	2.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS	2,502	1.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT	1,432	1.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	1,109	0.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	336	0.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	107	0.1%

Finnish Baltic Sea benthic monitoring, POHJE database

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data