Dataset

Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea - German data

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Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea, collected by German researchers. The dataset was digitised at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology Division; Benthos Ecology section.

Citation
Rumohr, H. Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea - German data. University Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology Division; Benthos Ecology Section.
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=hqbgg
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=hqbgg

Contacts

Heye Rumohr
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences

Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences

Dirk Fleischer
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences

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

7,576
total submitted occurrences
7,437
accepted occurrences
214
taxa
149
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 7,576
100.0%
decimalLatitude 29
0.4%
decimalLongitude 29
0.4%
maximumDepthInMeters 7,576
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 29
0.4%
scientificNameID 103
1.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 4,560
60.2%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 2,064
27.2%
NO_MATCH 103
1.4%
NO_COORD 29
0.4%
NO_DEPTH 29
0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 16
0.2%
NOT_MARINE 8
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data