Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) marine survey data (Professional)
Citation
Parr, J. Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) marine survey data (Professional). Marlin, Collated Marine Life Survey Datasets, Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, UK. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/640
A collection of marine life surveys collated by the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) as part of their data access program. Surveys are either flagged as professional surveys or data collected by volunteer recorders as part for the Sealife Survey. Information about survey methodology can be found on the MarLIN Web site (www.marlin.ac.uk). There are currently 368 surveys collated by MarLIN containing 250,000 species records. Data ownership remains with the data provider and permission must be sought for commercial use of the data.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Data, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Macrobenthos, Marine Genomics, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zoobenthos, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Ireland, UK, Actinopterygii, Agnatha, Annelida, Aves, Bryozoa, Chondrichthyes, Cnidaria, Collembola, Crustacea, Mollusca, Plantae, Tunicata
