Dataset

Baltic Sea benthic meiofauna and macrofauna mid 1990s

EurOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Biomass and abundance of western Baltic Sea benthic meio and macrofauna (all fauna >6 um sieve). Individual measures of body size, from Bornholm to Lulea. Only from Swedish and Danish waters.

Citation: Duplisea, D.E. 1998. Structuring of benthic communities, with a focus on size spectra. PhD thesis. Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University. ISBN 91-628-2919-X.

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:29

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

Daniel Duplisea
Government of Canada; Department of Fisheries and Oceans

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

611
occurrence records
40
taxa
7
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 611
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 611
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 611
100.0%
scientificNameID 23
3.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 611
100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 27
4.4%
NO_MATCH 23
3.8%
NOT_MARINE 9
1.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data