Dataset

ICES contaminants and biological effects

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

DOME contains marine environmental data featuring:

  • North-East Atlantic, Greenland sea, Baltic sea and Norwegian sea
  • Contaminants in biota, sediment and water, fish disease and biological communities
  • Aggregated fish trawl survey data
  • Data spanning the years 1965-2008

Citation: ICES Contaminants and biological effects database (DOME – Biota). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010. Online source: http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:04

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

Neil Holdsworth
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

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

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

58,801
occurrence records
215
taxa
177
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 58,801
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 58,801
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 58,801
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 58,801
100.0%
ON_LAND 5,927
10.1%
NOT_MARINE 95
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data