MarBEF Data System

Discovery Collections Midwater Database

Citation

Pugh, P. Discovery Collections Midwater Database. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton SO14 3ZH, U.K, 2000. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1991

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Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

This is a biological data base of the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, U.K. The data are mainly open ocean, with some data from upwelling regions off N.W. Africa and in the Arabian Sea. Data were collected using nets, mainly the IOS RMT1+8 combination net or its multiple version and represent 94000 records in 2100 species. Specific identifications made by various members of staff at the National Institute of Oceanography/Institute of Oceanographic Sciences.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Invertebrates

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Upwelling, Eastern North Atlantic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage

Eastern North Atlantic [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -43,6033; MinLat: 26,4092 - MaxLong: -0,891; MaxLat: 60,2709 [WGS84]

Contributor

University of Southampton; National Oceanography Centre (NOC), more, data owner

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: In Progress

Data type: Data

Data origin: Research: field survey

Metadatarecord created: 2009-06-09

Information last updated: 2022-08-01

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