MarBEF

Cold water corals

Citation

Rogers, A. and J. Hall-Spencer. Cold-water Corals. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 2005, Version 2.0. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1997

Access data

Archived data

Dedicated website

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Dataset of cold water corals from seamounts.

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, Biology > Invertebrates

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · Fresh water · Brackish water · Terrestrial · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Zoobenthos

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -179,98; MinLat: -73,68 - MaxLong: 180; MaxLat: 71,35 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

23 December 1933 - 24 May 2002 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Parameter

Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors

United Nations Environment Programme; World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), more, data owner

University of Southampton; National Oceanography Centre (NOC), more, data creator

Rogers, Alex

University of Plymouth (UOP), more, data creator