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Physical disturbance to the seabed dataset in support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 6 (D06C02, 2018 Reporting)
Citation
Vera Van Lancker, Lars Kint, Giacomo Montereale Gavazzi (2018). GIS layer for Physical disturbance and loss of the seabed: Disturbance (MSFD). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8511
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset is part of the 2018 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 6, criterion 2. This dataset describes and maps the physical disturbance to the seabed in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS) between 2011 and 2016. The dataset combines different layers of human activities leading to a disturbance of the seabed, including power cables with its rock dump, dredging and dumping, extraction, war ammunition stocking and wind farms. The area disturbed is mapped and quantified per year, per activity and per benthic broad habitat.

Scope
Themes:
Geography
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Human activities, Physical disturbance, Seabed, Belgian part of the North Sea

Geographical coverage
Belgian part of the North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 January 2012 - 31 December 2016

Contributors
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Geologie; Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG), moredata creator
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu; Dataverwerking en modellering van ecosystemen (ECODAM), moredata creator
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (IRScNB/KBIN), moredata ownerdataset publisher
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), moredata manager

Related datasets
(Partly) included in:
SUMES project. D3.4: Ecosystem services maps (supporting files), more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2024-03-07
Information last updated: 2024-03-07
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