Dataset

Phytoplankton and environmental data at the LTER "MareChiara" site (Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea) 1995-2015

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The dataset provides the monthly phytoplankton data (species composition and abundance - one sampling per month out of four) collected at the Long Term Ecological Research station “MareChiara” (LTER-MC) in the Gulf of Naples (Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean) from 1995 to 2015. The data set also includes environmental variables data (temperature, salinity, nutrients and chlorophyll a) aquired during the same sampling events.

Citation: Sarno D, Margiotta F, Percopo I, Zingone A (2025). Phytoplankton and environmental data at the LTER "MareChiara" site (Gulf of Naples, Mediterranea Sea) 1995-2015.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:13

URL: https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=lter_mc_phytoplankton

63,000
occurrence records
74,862
measurements and facts
229
taxa
173
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 63,000
100.0%
scientificNameID 1,000
1.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 8,000
12.7%
NO_MATCH 1,000
1.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 750
1.2%
NOT_MARINE 250
0.4%

Measurement types

DNA derived data