Name: Plymouth sound dataset. Soft sediment macrobenthos from the Plymouth Sound from 1995
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

The intended use of this dataset of the Plymouth Sound was the description of small-scale spatial patterns in soft sediment fauna. 44 stations were sampled for macrofauna around the British Isles during the period of July and August 1995

Citation

Kendall, M., S. Widdicombe, 1999: Plymouth sound dataset. Soft sediment macrobenthos from the Plymouth Sound from 1995. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/297

Published

September 17, 2025 at 09:13

First registration

July 19, 2021 at 16:48

License

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

URL

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

Archive

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

Contacts

Mike Kendall
Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Steve Widdicombe
Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Marine Biological Association of the UK
Marine Biological Association of the UK

Ruben Perez Perez
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

1,343

total submitted occurrences

1,343

accepted occurrences

4,029

measurements and facts

127

taxa

112

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,343		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,343	100.0%
ON_LAND	1,343	100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	12	0.9%

Plymouth sound dataset. Soft sediment macrobenthos from the Plymouth Sound from 1995

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data