Dataset

Phytoplankton and environmental study in the Southern North Sea between 1974 and 1978

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Abundance of phytoplankton species and related environmental parameters for 8 zones in the Southern North Sea between October 1974 and October 1978. The data were digitized from technical reports in the frame of the 4DEMON project.

Citation
Smeets J.; Louis A.; Laboratorium voor Hydrobiologie. KUL: Belgium; (2019): Phytoplankton and environmental study in the Southern North Sea between 1974 and 1978. Marine Data Archive. https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/340
Published
September 17, 2025 at 08:37
First registration
March 11, 2020 at 01:50
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Contacts

Louis
KU Leuven

Smeets
KU Leuven

KU Leuven
KU Leuven

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

1,087
total submitted occurrences
1,038
accepted occurrences
155,887
measurements and facts
78
taxa
72
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
scientificNameID 19
1.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 192
17.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 98
9.0%
NOT_MARINE 30
2.8%
NO_MATCH 19
1.7%

Measurement types

DNA derived data