Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area
EurOBIS

Dataset credit

iOBIS and EurOBIS

Abstract

Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area. Biogeographical information on (mainly) Belgian species. Focus area of the dataset spans from north of Wimereux (northern France) to the Scheldt estuary (southern Netherlands).

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Original data obtained from http://w2.vliz.be/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2010-09-17. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 22150) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

References

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). Taxonomic Information System for the Belgian coastal area. 10 Aug 2004, Oostende, Belgium, Version: 1, SQL-server, dd/mm/yyyy.

Data on iOBIS. 2010. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=1695, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://w2.vliz.be/digir/DiGIR.php, obtained on 2010-09-17

Contacts

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Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

The attributes of this dataset are compatible with the OBIS Schema, then reformatted to the OBIS-SEAMAP schema. If you would like to get the data in the OBIS Schema, please visit iOBIS Portal.

SEAMAP ID103151695
Seabirds72
Marine mammals105
Sea turtles6
Total183
Date, Begin1844-01-01
Date, End1844-01-01
Latitudes13.69 - 74.65
Longitudes-33.44 - 79.95
PlatformVarious
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
SourceiOBIS
Updated2011-10-12