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

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

Michael Zettler
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde

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

41,422

occurrence records

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