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Benthic occurrences, habitat maps, and species traits
Citation
Tom J. Webb (2021) Benthic occurrences, habitat maps, and species traits. Integrated data products created under the European Marine Observation Data Network (EMODnet) Biology project (EASME/EMFF/2017/1.3.1.2/02/SI2.789013), funded by the by the European Union under Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/6620

Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This data product links occurrences of benthic invertebrates from the EMODnet benthic numerical abundance product to two complementary seabed habitat products: the EMODnet broadscale habitat map 2019 (Vasquez et al., 2020), and Wilson et al.'s (2018) synthetic map of the north-west European Shelf sedimentary environment. We also process and incorporate qualitative information on the habitat and sediment preferences of species from the Biological Traits Information Catalogue BIOTIC database.

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Habitat (Ecology), Marine, Ocean floor

Contributor
Webb, Thomas

Related datasets
Source datasets:
Data product numerical abundance of benthic macroinvertebrates in North Sea and Baltic Sea
MBA/MarLIN-Collated Marine Life Survey Datasets

Project
EMODNETBIO III: European Marine Observation and Data Network- Biology III


Data type: Data products
Metadatarecord created: 2020-12-24
Information last updated: 2021-04-07
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