Dataset

SHARK - National zoobenthos monitoring in Sweden since 1971

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Data collected within various monitoring programmes and surveys. Standard zoobenthos techniques using benthic grabbers and species analyses for counts and weights on species level.

Citation
Stockholm University, Gothenburg University, Umeå University, Linnaeus University, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (2020). National zoobenthos monitoring in Sweden since 1971. https://doi.org/10.15468/fggzdr
Published
June 11, 2025 at 12:48
First registration
May 10, 2021 at 20:31
License
To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)
URL
http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=smhi-zoobenthos-nat
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=smhi-zoobenthos-nat

Contacts

Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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

16,320
total submitted occurrences
16,320
accepted occurrences
65,367
measurements and facts
591
taxa
416
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 16,320
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 44
0.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 5
0.0%
ON_LAND 5
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data