Name: BIS dataset of the south-western part of Netherlands (1985-2004)
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

This CD contains part of the data from the Benthos Information system, the database of the Monitor Task-group of the NIOO.

Citation

Hummel H. 2004: BIS dataset of the south-western part of Netherlands (1985-2004). Netherlands Institute of Ecology; Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands. Metadata available at http://mda.nioo.knaw.nl/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=599

Published

September 17, 2025 at 08:32

License

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

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=largenet_n1

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=largenet_n1

Contacts

Herman Hummel
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee; NIOZ Yerseke; Afdeling Monitor Taakgroep

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

136,161

total submitted occurrences

135,750

accepted occurrences

491

taxa

327

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	136,161		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	136,161		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,099		0.8%
scientificNameID		101	0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	46,458	34.1%
NO_DEPTH	1,099	0.8%
NOT_MARINE	310	0.2%
MARINE_UNSURE	104	0.1%
NO_MATCH	101	0.1%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	33	0.0%

BIS dataset of the south-western part of Netherlands (1985-2004)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data