Dataset

MarBEF Publication Series data

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

These data are published in papers held within the MarBEF Publication Series. The MarBEF Data Management team has been screening these papers and provides the distribution data via EurOBIS.

Citation
MarBEF (2006) MarBEF Publication Series data. Available online on EurOBIS. Consulted on dd-mm-yyyy.
Published
September 17, 2025 at 09:48
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=marbef
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=marbef

Contacts

Ward Appeltans
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

1,777
total submitted occurrences
1,759
accepted occurrences
595
taxa
542
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,777
100.0%
eventDate 1,389
78.2%
maximumDepthInMeters 1,588
89.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 1,599
90.0%
scientificNameID 3
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 1,587
89.3%
ON_LAND 211
11.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 21
1.2%
NOT_MARINE 15
0.8%
MARINE_UNSURE 5
0.3%
NO_MATCH 3
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data