Name: Historical benthos data from the North Sea and Baltic Sea from 1902-1912
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

This dataset has been reconstructed from museum collections.

Citation

Rumohr, H., Historical benthosdata from the North Sea and Baltic Sea from 1902-1912. Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology Division; Benthos Ecology section, Kiel, Germany.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:04

License

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

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=hbno

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=hbno

Contacts

Heye Rumohr
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences

Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences

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

Dirk Fleischer
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences

6,399

total submitted occurrences

6,270

accepted occurrences

535

taxa

489

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	6,399		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	786		12.3%
minimumDepthInMeters	786		12.3%
scientificNameID	99	30	2.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	786	12.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	489	7.6%
ON_LAND	195	3.0%
NO_MATCH	129	2.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	26	0.4%

Historical benthos data from the North Sea and Baltic Sea from 1902-1912

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data