Dataset

ICES Phytobenthos community dataset

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=dome-phytobenthos
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=dome-phytobenthos

Contacts

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
total submitted occurrences
251,967
accepted occurrences
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 Dropped 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%

Measurement types

DNA derived data