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/doc/dataset/1172
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Moncoiffé, Gwenaëlle Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.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. 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 > Plankton > Phytoplankton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton, Geography Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biogeography · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geographical distribution · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · World Waters · XYZ ASCII · World Oceans · Biota Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -85,7438; MinLat: -70,3142 - MaxLong: 67,3056; MaxLat: 70,4167 [WGS84] World Oceans [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
20 March 1971 - 20 February 2006 (EurOBIS harvested data) Taxonomic coverage
Biota [WoRMS]
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2006-12-20
Metadatarecord created: 2007-03-26
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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