Dataset

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

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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

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

Projekt Zee - Phytoplankton Consortium

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

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

7,898
occurrence records
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 Dropped 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%

Measurement types

DNA derived data