Dataset

Benthos Oosterschelde 1959-2015

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Long term measurements of benthos composition in the Eastern Scheldt. Conducted by Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research for scientific purposes (1959-2015).

Citation
NIOZ (2023) Benthos Oosterschelde 1959-2015
Published
September 17, 2025 at 08:41
First registration
June 01, 2023 at 21:30
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
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=benthosos
Archive
https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=benthosos

Contacts

Karline Soetaert
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee

Adri Knuijt
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee

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

24,941
total submitted occurrences
24,941
accepted occurrences
75,186
measurements and facts
322
taxa
218
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 24,941
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,061
8.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,061
8.3%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 5,789
23.2%
NO_DEPTH 2,061
8.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 129
0.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 14
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data