Dataset

Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by Natural England

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 Natural England.

Citation: Natural England (NE) (2021): Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by Natural England. v2.1. Marine Biological Association. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.17031/thn0xd

Published: January 13, 2022 at 09:23

URL: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=jncc_mr_snapshot_whole_uk_5

Natural England (NE)
Natural England (NE)

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

415,442
occurrence records
3,367,168
measurements and facts
3,474
taxa
2,196
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 415,442
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 342,347
82.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 216,766
52.2%
scientificNameID 708
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 200,193
48.2%
ON_LAND 23,550
5.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 829
0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 760
0.2%
NO_MATCH 708
0.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 265
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 40
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data