Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)

Sampling event
Latest version published by Marine Biological Association on Jan 13, 2022 Marine Biological Association
Publication date:
13 January 2022
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Data as a DwC-A file download 20,923 records in English (11 MB) - Update frequency: not planned
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Description

The UK Marine Recorder public snapshot is an aggregated UK-wide marine dataset, published on a 6monthly basis. Data are collated by JNCC from publicly accessible data provided to JNCC by UK governmental and non-governmental conservation bodies from data holdings within each organisation’s internal “Marine Recorder” marine data management database application. Marine Recorder is a benthic survey data management system used widely within the UK’s statutory nature conservation bodies to store and query benthic sample data across the UK’s offshore and inshore waters. The system is able to store species occurrence data (with associated measurements), biotope information in the Marine Habitat Classification for Britain & Ireland and physical attribute data. The system maintains consistency and relationships between sample information, measurements and surveys allowing for accessible querying of the database. Contributors to the snapshot are: Centre for Environmental Data and Recording (CEDaR, Northern Ireland); Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH); Joint Nature Conservation Committee; Natural England; Natural Resources Wales; Porcupine Marine Natural History Society; Scottish Natural Heritage; Seasearch (Marine Conservation Society); Shoresearch Kent Wildlife Trust and The Wildlife Trusts. This dataset consists of surveys entered by he archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH).

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 20,923 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)
20923
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
784356
Occurrence 
385688

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:

The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH) (2021): Marine Recorder Snapshot extract of surveys entered by The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH). v2.2. Marine Biological Association. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.17031/myrqac

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

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Keywords

Samplingevent

Contacts

The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)
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The archive for marine species and habitats data (DASSH)
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Additional Metadata