Dataset

North Sea Benthos Survey

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North Sea macrobenthos species density and abundance, measured on a regular grid of stations corresponding with ICES standard stations. All sampling was done in spring 1986.

Citation
Craeymeersh J., P. Kingston, E. Rachor, G. Duineveld, Carlo Heip, Edward Vanden Berghe, 1986: North Sea Benthos Survey.
Published
September 17, 2025 at 09:11
License
Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=nsbs
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=nsbs

Contacts

Carlo Heip
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee; NIOZ Yerseke

Johan Craeymeersch
Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research

Paul Kingston
Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Eike Rachor
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research

Gerard Duineveld
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee

Edward Vanden Berghe
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

Ruben Perez Perez
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

16,846
total submitted occurrences
16,846
accepted occurrences
22,603
measurements and facts
899
taxa
746
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 16,846
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,427
14.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,427
14.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,427
14.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 417
2.5%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 172
1.0%
ON_LAND 38
0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data