Dataset

Benthic otter trawl catch data, Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Northeast Atlantic Ocean, RRS Discovery III cruise 185, 1989

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These data record the results of processing otter trawl catches (OTSB14; Merrett & Marshall, 1980) from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK) long-term study of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP), including the PAP-Sustained Observatory time-series. The data concern catches recovered during RRS Discovery III cruise 185 in 1989. Rice, AL, 1990. RRS Discovery Cruise 185, 18 Aug - 17 Sep 1989. Abyssal benthic biology at the European Community Station (48° 50' N, 16° 30' W). Wormley, UK, Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, 51pp. (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory Cruise Report 217). https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/114253/

Citation: Horton T, Serpell-Stevens A, Valls Domedel G, Bett B J (2024). Benthic otter trawl catch data, Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Northeast Atlantic Ocean, RRS Discovery III cruise 185, 1989. Version 1.3. The Discovery Collections. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=pap_megafauna_discovery185_1989&v=1.3

Published: July 05, 2024 at 09:25

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

URL: https://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=pap_megafauna_discovery185_1989

Contacts:

Tammy Horton
National Oceanography Centre

Amanda Serpell-Stevens
National Oceanography Centre

Georgina Valls Domedel
National Oceanography Centre

Brian James Bett
National Oceanography Centre

2,956
occurrence records
2,967
measurements and facts
56
taxa
31
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 980
33.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data