Biological phytoplankton community data

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

Published: September 17, 2025 at 10:19

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

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

Neil Holdsworth
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

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

2,540,463

occurrence records

8,016,396

measurements and facts

1,060

taxa

651

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,540,463		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	60,939		2.4%
minimumDepthInMeters	60,939		2.4%
scientificNameID		206,849	8.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_MATCH	206,849	8.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	205,689	8.1%
ON_LAND	80,180	3.2%
MARINE_UNSURE	78,780	3.1%
NO_DEPTH	60,939	2.4%
NOT_MARINE	43,910	1.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	2,397	0.1%

ICES Phytoplankton Community dataset

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data