Dataset

Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by NatureScot

OBIS UK MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The UK Marine Recorder public snapshot is an aggregated UK-wide marine dataset, published on a 6monthly basis. Data are collated by JNCC from publicly accessible data provided to JNCC by UK governmental and non-governmental conservation bodies from data holdings within each organisation’s internal “Marine Recorder” marine data management database application. Marine Recorder is a benthic survey data management system used widely within the UK’s statutory nature conservation bodies to store and query benthic sample data across the UK’s offshore and inshore waters. The system is able to store species occurrence data (with associated measurements), biotope information in the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain & Ireland and physical attribute data. The system maintains consistency and relationships between sample information, measurements and surveys allowing for accessible querying of the database. Contributors to the snapshot are: Centre for Environmental Data and Recording (CEDaR, Northern Ireland); Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH); Joint Nature Conservation Committee; Natural England; Natural Resources Wales; Porcupine Marine Natural History Society; Scottish Natural Heritage; Seasearch (Marine Conservation Society); Shoresearch Kent Wildlife Trust and The Wildlife Trusts. This dataset consists of surveys entered by NatureScot.

Citation: NatureScot (2021): Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by NatureScot. v2.1. Marine Biological Association. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.17031/pqhlyg

Published: January 13, 2022 at 09:43

URL: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=jncc_mr_snapshot_whole_uk_4

NatureScot
NatureScot

The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)
The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)

229,659
occurrence records
1,444,121
measurements and facts
3,206
taxa
2,186
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 229,659
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 201,362
87.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 194,499
84.7%
scientificNameID 126
0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 192,650
83.9%
ON_LAND 14,658
6.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 2,291
1.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 874
0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 477
0.2%
NO_MATCH 126
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 13
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data