Name: ICES contaminants and biological effects
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=ices_dome_biota

Contacts

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

total submitted occurrences

58,706

accepted occurrences

215

taxa

177

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
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	Records
NO_DEPTH	58,801	100.0%
ON_LAND	5,927	10.1%
NOT_MARINE	95	0.2%

ICES contaminants and biological effects

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data