Dataset

Finnish Baltic Sea phytoplankton monitoring, KPLANK database

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The KPLANK database includes data on phytoplankton, covering the Finnish coastal areas as well as the offshore areas of the Baltic Sea. The quantitative data mainly stem from the Finnish national monitoring program and statutory monitoring programs. In total the database contain approximately 240 000 quantitative records including size classes. The data span from 1937 to present. The database is regularly maintained and data is added continuously.

Citation: Finnish Environment Institute SYKE; (2019); Finnish Baltic Sea phytoplankton monitoring, KPLANK database

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=kplank_database

Finnish Environment Institute
Finnish Environment Institute

199,061
occurrence records
618,606
measurements and facts
451
taxa
230
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 199,061
100.0%
scientificNameID 13,248 33,733
23.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_MATCH 46,981
23.6%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 12,370
6.2%
MARINE_UNSURE 11,636
5.8%
NOT_MARINE 5,970
3.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 5,274
2.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 2,802
1.4%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 1,480
0.7%
ON_LAND 371
0.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 37
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data