Name: Historical benthic data from the southern Baltic Sea (1839-2001)
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Biodiversity of macrozoobenthos of German Baltic waters between Fehmarn and Usedem, literature data from 1839 to 2001

Citation

Zettler M.L. (2001). Historical benthic data from the southern Baltic Sea (1839-2001). Baltic Sea Research Institute Warnemünde (IOW), Germany.

Published

September 17, 2025 at 08:32

License

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

URL

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

Archive

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

Contacts

Michael Zettler
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde

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

41,422

total submitted occurrences

40,281

accepted occurrences

453

taxa

381

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	41,422		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	41,422		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	41,422		100.0%
scientificNameID	7	397	1.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	41,422	100.0%
ON_LAND	4,121	9.9%
NOT_MARINE	740	1.8%
NO_MATCH	401	1.0%
MARINE_UNSURE	99	0.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	11	0.0%

Historical benthic data from the southern Baltic Sea (1839-2001)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data