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Coastal and marine species
Citation
National Biodiversity Data Centre: Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources - Coastal and marine species. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/oynwkx
Contact: O'Neill, Barry

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

Description
The records in this dataset are general marine and coastal records of different taxonomic groups submitted to the National Biodiversity Data Centre. more

The purpose is to provide a facility for recorders to contribute to the knowledge of the distribution of coastal and marine species in Ireland and to make their records more freely avaiable. The bulk of the records contained in this dataset are from either professional recorders or highly competent recorders working in a voluntary capacity. Not all of the data has been validated.

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
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Field observations, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Observation, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE: Ireland, Irish Exclusive Economic Zone, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Animalia, Chromista

Geographical coverage
ANE: Ireland, Irish Exclusive Economic Zone
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -10,5736; MinLat: 51,6419 - MaxLong: -6,0235; MaxLat: 55,2425 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
2013 - 2017

Taxonomic coverage
Animalia [WoRMS]
Chromista [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
National Biodiversity Data Centredata creator
O'Neill, Barry
Lysaght, Liam

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2017-12-15
Metadatarecord created: 2017-08-28
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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