Name: Biogeography Scheldt Estuary
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Taxonomy database of the Western and Sea Scheldt from the of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology; Department of Ecosystem Studies

Citation

Sistermans W., Hummel H. 2003: Biogeography Scheldt Estuary. Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands. Metadata available at http://mda.nioo.knaw.nl/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=496

Published

September 17, 2025 at 08:38

License

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

URL

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

Archive

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

Contacts

Wil Sistermans
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee; NIOZ Yerseke; Afdeling Ecosysteem Studies

Herman Hummel
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee; NIOZ Yerseke; Afdeling Monitor Taakgroep

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

31,747

total submitted occurrences

31,300

accepted occurrences

378

taxa

250

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	31,747		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	31,747		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	31,747		100.0%
scientificNameID		447	1.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	31,747	100.0%
ON_LAND	20,163	63.5%
NO_MATCH	447	1.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	9	0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE	3	0.0%

Biogeography Scheldt Estuary

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data