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Biomôr 1 dataset. Benthic data from the Southern Irish Sea from 1989-1991
Citation
Mackie, A.S.Y., P.G. Oliver, E.I.S. Rees, 1991: Biomôr 1 dataset. Benthic data from the Southern Irish Sea from 1989-1991. National Museum and galleries of Wales, Cardiff, UK. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1600
Contact: Mackie, Andrew ; Oliver, Graham ; Rees, E. Ivor
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Surveys of benthic invertebrates of the Southern Irish Sea were carried out in 1989 and 1991. Both quantitative and qualitative samples were taken for faunal and sediment analysis
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 > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Irish Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
ANE, Irish Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -6,5003; MinLat: 51,26 - MaxLong: -4,15; MaxLat: 53,44 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1989 - 1991
Parameters

Abundance
Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Contributors
National Museums and Galleries of Wales; Department of Zoology, more, data provider, data creator
Mackie, Andrew
Oliver, Graham
Bangor University; School of Ocean Sciences, more, data creator
Rees, E. Ivor
National Museum of Wales (NMGW), more, data creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Perez Perez, Ruben
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Oslo database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop), more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Mackie, A.S.Y.; Oliver, P.G.; Rees, E.I.S. (1995). Benthic biodiversity in the Southern Irish Sea. Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Systematics from the National Museum of Wales. BIOMÔR Reports, 1. Galleries of Wales/National Museums: Cardiff. ISBN 0-7200-0427-6. VIII, 264, 4 plates, maps, figs., appendices pp., more
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2012-02-23
Metadatarecord created: 2008-02-26
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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