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Discovery Collections Midwater Database
Citation
Pugh, P. Discovery Collections Midwater Database. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton SO14 3ZH, U.K, 2000. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1991
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This is a biological data base of the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory, U.K. The data are mainly open ocean, with some data from upwelling regions off N.W. Africa and in the Arabian Sea. Data were collected using nets, mainly the IOS RMT1+8 combination net or its multiple version and represent 94000 records in 2100 species. Specific identifications made by various members of staff at the National Institute of Oceanography/Institute of Oceanographic Sciences.
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, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Upwelling, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Eastern North Atlantic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
Eastern North Atlantic [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -43,6033; MinLat: 26,4092 - MaxLong: -0,891; MaxLat: 60,2709 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -43,6033; MinLat: 26,4092 - MaxLong: -0,891; MaxLat: 60,2709 [WGS84]
Contributor
University of Southampton; National Oceanography Centre (NOC), more, data owner
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2009-05-29
Metadatarecord created: 2009-06-09
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
