Phytobenthos community data, a large portion of the data held are monitoring data submitted for the OSPAR CEMP and HELCOM COMBINE monitoring programmes and therefore follow specific monitoring programme guidelines.

Citation: ICES Environmental Database (DOME), Phytobenthos community. Available online at http://dome.ices.dk. ICES, Copenhagen. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:39

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=dome-phytobenthos

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

Carlos Pinto
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

257,452

occurrence records

1,779,411

measurements and facts

433

taxa

268

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	257,452		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	192		0.1%
minimumDepthInMeters	192		0.1%
scientificNameID		26	0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	55,746	21.7%
NOT_MARINE	5,459	2.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	269	0.1%
NO_DEPTH	192	0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE	72	0.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	59	0.0%
NO_MATCH	26	0.0%

ICES Phytobenthos community dataset

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data