Integrated Marine Information System

DOME - biota: ICES contaminants and biological effects

Citation

ICES Contaminants and biological effects database (DOME – Biota). The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 2010. Online source: http://ecosystemdata.ices.dk. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2159

Contact: Holdsworth, Neil

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Notes: ICES data policy: https://www.ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx

Description

DOME contains marine environmental data featuring:

North-East Atlantic, Greenland sea, Baltic sea and Norwegian sea
Contaminants in biota, sediment and water, fish disease and biological communities
Aggregated fish trawl survey data
Data spanning the years 1965-2008

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, Environmental quality/pollution

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biological effects, Biota, Contaminants, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Europe, European, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Europe

Geographical coverage

ANE, Europe [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -170,25; MinLat: 10,6704 - MaxLong: 149,3667; MaxLat: 80,1667 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

1 January 1977 - 1 February 2009

Contributors

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), more, data manager, data provider, data creator

Holdsworth, Neil

Related datasets

Parent dataset:

ESD: ICES EcoSystemData, more