Name: Monitoring of the effects of Belgian wind mill parks on benthic macro-invertebrates and the fish fauna of soft substrates - reference situation. (WINMON)
License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

This dataset has been created to establish the reference situation of benthic macro-invertebrates (macro-, endobenthos en macro-epibenthos) and demersal fish in the Belgian windfarm area.

Published: January 18, 2021 at 15:20

First registration: October 24, 2025 at 15:02

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL: https://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=idod_winmon

Contacts:

Serge Scory
Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences

Thomas Vandenberghe
Biodiversity and Ecological Data and Information Centre - Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences

13,329

total submitted occurrences

13,242

accepted occurrences

21,355

measurements and facts

118

taxa

102

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	13,329	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	485	3.6%
minimumDepthInMeters	485	3.6%
scientificNameID	1	0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	485	3.6%
NOT_MARINE	87	0.7%
MARINE_UNSURE	19	0.1%
ON_LAND	2	0.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	1	0.0%

Monitoring of the effects of Belgian wind mill parks on benthic macro-invertebrates and the fish fauna of soft substrates - reference situation. (WINMON)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data