MarBEF Data System

Biogeographic data from BODC - British Oceanographic Data Centre [Biogeografische data van BODC - Brits Oceanografisch Datacentrum]

Citation

British Oceanographic Data Centre, UK. Biogeographic data from BODC. in : EurOBIS. http://www.marbef.org/data/eurobissearch.php?dataprovider=47, accessed on [date]. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1172

Contact: Moncoiffé, Gwenaëlle

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Description

Partial contribution from the British Oceanographic Data Centre's databases (see below for details on status). more

This initial contribution is a subset of BODC's current taxonomic data holdings and only includes taxonomic data related to water bottle samples collected mainly in open ocean waters. Future contributions will extend the coverage of the data submission to shelf seas and data derived from net hauls and benthic surveys and sampling.

Scope

Themes:

Biology, Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton, Geography

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Biogeography, Biota, Geographical distribution, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Waters, Biota

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -85,7438; MinLat: -70,3142 - MaxLong: 67,3056; MaxLat: 70,4167 [WGS84]

World Waters [Marine Regions]

Taxonomic coverage

Biota [WoRMS]

Parameters

Count
Distribution

Contributors

British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), more, data manager, data creator, data creator

Moncoiffé, Gwenaëlle

Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

(Partly) included in:

Presence/Absence maps of phytoplankton in the Greater North Sea

Dataset status: In Progress

Data type: Data

Data origin: Research: field survey

Metadatarecord created: 2007-03-26

Information last updated: 2012-01-26

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