Name: Total phytoplankton inventory in the North Sea and the river Scheldt in 1972
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Overview of phytoplankton species in the Southern Bight of the North Sea and in the Scheldt estuary between July and October 1972. The data are digitized from technical reports in the frame of the 4DEMON project.

Citation

Projekt Zee - Phytoplankton Consortium: Belgium; (2019): Total phytoplankton inventory in the North Sea and the river Scheldt in 1972. Marine Data Archive. https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/336

Published

September 17, 2025 at 08:32

First registration

December 23, 2019 at 14:22

License

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

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=total_phytoplankton_inventory_in_the_north_sea_and_the_river_scheldt_in_1972

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=total_phytoplankton_inventory_in_the_north_sea_and_the_river_scheldt_in_1972

Contacts

Projekt Zee - Phytoplankton Consortium

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

7,898

total submitted occurrences

5,824

accepted occurrences

14,374

measurements and facts

159

taxa

150

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	7,898		100.0%
decimalLatitude	1,439		18.2%
decimalLongitude	1,439		18.2%
scientificNameID		437	5.5%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	1,872	23.7%
NO_COORD	1,439	18.2%
ON_LAND	1,084	13.7%
MARINE_UNSURE	850	10.8%
NOT_MARINE	491	6.2%
NO_MATCH	437	5.5%

Total phytoplankton inventory in the North Sea and the river Scheldt in 1972

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data