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DOME - biota: ICES contaminants and biological effects
Citation
ICES Contaminants and biological effects database (DOME – Biota). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010. Online source: http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2159
Contact: Holdsworth, Neil
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Notes: ICES data policy: https://www.ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx
Description
DOME contains marine environmental data featuring:
  • North-East Atlantic, Greenland sea, Baltic sea and Norwegian sea
  • Contaminants in biota, sediment and water, fish disease and biological communities
  • Aggregated fish trawl survey data
  • Data spanning the years 1965-2008
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 > Ecology - biodiversity, Environmental quality/pollution
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biological effects · Biota · Contaminants · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Europe · European · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -170,25; MinLat: 10,6704 - MaxLong: 149,3667; MaxLat: 80,1667 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1 January 1977 - 1 February 2009
4 September 1978 - 9 March 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data)
Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Contributors
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), more, data manager, data provider, data creator
Holdsworth, Neil
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
ESD: ICES EcoSystemData, more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2010-03-09
Metadatarecord created: 2009-10-22
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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