EMODnet Biology

EMODnet Biology provides three keys services and products to users. 1)The data download toolbox allows users to explore available datasets searching by source, geographical area, and/or time period. Datasets can be narrowed down using a taxonomic criteria, whether by species group (e.g. benthos, fish, algae, pigments) or by both scientific and common name. 2) The data catalogue is the easiest way to access nearly 1000 datasets available through EMODnet Biology. Datasets can be filtered by multiple parameters via the advanced search from taxon, to institute, to geographic region. Each of the resulting datasets then links to a detailed fact sheet containing a link to original data provider, recommended citation, policy and other relevant information. Data Products - EMODnet Biology combines different data from datasets with overlapping geographic scope and produces dynamic maps of selected species abundance. The first products are already available and they focus on species whose data records are most complete and span for a longer term.

Date (Creation): 2017-03-21

Identifier: EMODnet_Biology

Credit: EMODnet Biology

Author

EMODnet Biology

Publisher

VLIZ – Flanders Marine Institute

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Species distribution

AtlantOS Element

Integrators

Theme

Biology
abundance
biomass
biota
benthos
plankton
birds
biodiversity
fish
flora
fauna
invertebrates
macroalgae
mammals
nekton
phytoplankton
plants
reptiles
zooplankton

Ocean Hackathon - City and challenge

/International and global data portals

Thèmes Sextant

/Biological Environment

Use limitation: No condition applies

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Spatial representation type: vector Vector

Metadata language: English

Character set: utf8 UTF8

Topic category

Oceans

Reference system identifier: EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 8.6

Distribution format

OnLine resource: EMODnet Biology website ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource: sahfos_diatoms ( OGC:WMS )
Annual mean abundance Diatoms 1958-2006

OnLine resource: sahfos_dinoflagellates ( OGC:WMS )
Annual means Dinoflagellates 1958-2006

OnLine resource: sahfos_colour ( OGC:WMS )
Annual means Phytoplankton Colour Index 1958-2006

OnLine resource: zooplankton_erased ( OGC:WMS )
Annual anomalies of total copepod abundance per CPR-grid cell from the SAHFOS CPR Survey data for 1948-2005

OnLine resource: sahfos_deliverable2 ( OGC:WMS )
Delivery of annual CPR abundance data

OnLine resource: cprgrid ( OGC:WMS )
SAHFOS CPR standard areas

OnLine resource: eurobis_stats_iho_erms ( OGC:WMS )
Statistics EurOBIS data in 2011

OnLine resource: sahfos_hab_timeseries ( OGC:WMS )
Time-series for the North Sea of standardized anomalies of abundance of 4 HAB taxa from 1958 – 2009

OnLine resource: sahfos_deliverable2_grid ( OGC:WMS )
Total Eyecount copepods (copepods > 2 mm)

OnLine resource: emodnet1x1grid ( OGC:WMS )
A 1x1 degree grid for the European Marine Waters

OnLine resource: grid ( OGC:WMS )
A 3x3 degree grid for the European Marine Waters

OnLine resource: EMODnet Biology catalogue ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Biodiversity data can be made available using the Darwin Core standard that is in use by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). This biogeographic data scheme is able to handle information and data of annual, seasonal, and spatial distribution of species composition and occurrence, but also abundance and biomass data in the water column and on the seabed can be handled with this data format.

Furthermore, OBIS-ENV-DATA pilot project was launched to develop a proposed standard and guidelines to make sure these combined datasets can stay together and are not, as is often the case, split and sent to different repositories. EMODnet Biology Data products of species gridded abundance are coupled with corresponding error maps.