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Bigood Citation Fabri, M-C. et al., Ifremer BIOCEAN database (Deep Sea Benthic Fauna). Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, Ifremer, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. World Wide Web electronic publication, http://www.ifremer.fr/isi/biocean. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/490 Contact: Van Iseghem, Sylvie Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Deep-sea benthic fauna collected during Ifremer cruises more The Biocean database was designed to gather the extremely large volume of data collected from different deep-sea ecosystem studies conducted by Ifremer's department "Environnement Profond" and aims at facilitating ecosystem studies in the deep sea. It represents an important new resource for deep-sea ecologists and will have wide applications in biogeography, and biodiversity studies. 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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Deep sea, Environment, Fauna, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Waters, Animalia Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -153,5393; MinLat: -53 - MaxLong: 168; MaxLat: 77 [WGS84] World Waters [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage 1967 - 2007 Unknown Taxonomic coverage Animalia [WoRMS] Parameters Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Contributors Related datasets Publication Based on this dataset Fabri, M.-C. et al. (2006). Combining the Biocean database for deep-sea benthic data with the online Ocean Biogeographic Information System Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 316: 215-224, more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Release date: 2004-12-24 Metadatarecord created: 2005-01-04 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
