2009 - ongoing The Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Devon and Cornwall Bioblitz Surveys

Sampling event
Latest version published by Marine Biological Association on Feb 13, 2024 Marine Biological Association
Publication date:
13 February 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The MBA runs an annual Bioblitz with partners, as well as supporting and participating in Bioblitz events run by other organisations. The bioblitz is a 24 hour survey to document all ad hoc sightings of any species found within the area. In 2019, this event was carried out in Wembury Bay, Devon, UK.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 966 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
966
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
15099
Occurrence 
1629

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

45: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) (2024): 2009 - ongoing The Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Devon and Cornwall Bioblitz Surveys. v1.1. Marine Biological Association. Dataset/Samplingevent. 10.17031/64942873c2a44

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Marine Biological Association. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a3f862ed-9a34-40e3-8385-2c253bf50ad8.  Marine Biological Association publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Network.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Samplingevent

Contacts

45: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA)
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The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)
Plymouth
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Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers a3f862ed-9a34-40e3-8385-2c253bf50ad8
https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=dasshdt00000441