cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14284/510
title: Length/Width and biomass of nematodes from sandbanks on the Belgian Continental Shelf

description: Firstly, one wanted to analyse the response of nematode biomass spectra (NBS) to three distinct stressors upon the sediment habitat and secondly, analysing the NBS in different ways to be able to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of various methods.
description: This dataset was collected in the framework of the PODO-I project: "Structural and functional biodiversity of North Sea ecosystems: species and their habitats as indicators for a sustainable development of the Belgian Continental Shelf".
DOI: 10.25607/gpm2tv
title: UNESCO eDNA expedition in Socotra Archipelago (Yemen): June 2023

description: This dataset contains the eDNA data collected as a part of the UNESCO eDNA expeditions in Marine World Heritage Sites project in 2022-2024. The project was coordinated in collaboration with the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) of IOC-UNESCO and the marine programme of the UNESCO World Heritage Center, and funded by the government of Flanders (Kingdom of Belgium). The samples were collected with citizen science eDNA sampling kits, containing a syringe and a filter, and preserved with Longmire's buffer, before sequencing at a central laboratory. Five different biomarkers were analysed, including 12SMifish, Mimammal, Teleo, 16S-Vert and COI markers. The sequences were analysed with the PacMAN pipeline and quality controlled including a validation check by local scientists and site managers as well as compared to existing knowledge on species distributions in OBIS and GBIF. The full sampling protocols and materials are available on the project website (https://www.unesco.org/en/edna-training-materials?hub=66910), and the bioinformatics pipeline is on github (https://github.com/iobis/PacMAN-pipeline). The data can also be explored on the eDNA expeditions dashboard (https://dashboard.ednaexpeditions.org/).
DOI: 10.48518/00023
title: Marine benthic animal data along Yokohama City Coast
DOI: 10.14286/duc6mu
title: Raby Coho Salmon Tagging

description: This is the OBIS extraction of the Ocean Tracking Network and University of British Columbia (UBC) Raby Coho Salmon Tagging, consisting of the release tagging metadata, i.e. the location and date when the tagged animal was released, and summarized detection events of tagged individuals. If readers are interested in the source dataset they may also inquire with the project PIs as listed here or on the OTN web site (https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=NEP.RABY).
description: Abstract:In August 2012, we conducted a pilot study in the Juan de Fuca strait where we tagged 50 wild adult coho salmon with VEMCO V8 acoustic transmitters (PhD student Raby, technicians Stamplecoskie, Hills, Thompson). This effectively is the first work anywhere on tracking the homeward migration of coho salmon in the marine environment. The fish we tagged were biopsied for DNA and we anticipate that we tagged a mixture of American (Puget Sound) and Canadian (Fraser River) stocks. This project utilized the acoustic receiver lines currently operating in the Juan de Fuca strait, the Fraser River mouth, the lower Fraser River, and likely also an American line operating in Puget Sound (tracking data to be downloaded). The project was a collaboration with industry partners (Area B Seine Society), the Pacific Salmon Foundation, and DFO, with the objective of generating a bycatch mortality estimate for coho salmon captured in purse seine fisheries that target sockeye and pink salmon. As a research platform, we chartered a purse seine vessel and crew, and tagging involved external attachment of V8 tags using Floy Tag "spaghetti" tags. As this was a novel tagging method for migrating adult salmon, we simultaneously conducted a tagging validation study using an on-board net pen with 24-h holding trials. Tagged coho salmon bycatch were also evaluated for injury and reflex impairment in order to link post-release fate with fish condition. Likewise, we were able to compare fish condition with mortality in the on-board 24-h holding study (repeated 4x) in order to bolster our samples sizes for the mortality estimate. In August of 2013, other researchers (PhD students Cook and Drenner, technicians Ward, Hills, Chapman) repeated this study in the same area and with the same crew except with increased sample sizes; 220 coho bycatch were tagged. Unlike in 2012, pink salmon abundances were high and the vessel was chartered to simulate an actual commercial pink salmon fishery. Therefore, mortality estimates from 2013 are likely more realistic than those from 2012. Additionally, longer holding studies (i.e. 3 days and 4 days) were conducted using the same on-board net pen to evaluate progression of disease and stress indices following capture.
DOI: 10.15472/5zrypo
title: Datos de monitoreo de las praderas de pastos marinos del Caribe colombiano – Estructura peces

description: En el contexto de los proyectos "Diseño e implementación del subsistema de áreas marinas protegidas en Colombia" y "Protección de la biodiversidad en el Caribe suroccidental", financiados conjuntamente por el GEF y llevados a cabo por Invemar y Coralina, se han unido esfuerzos para desarrollar y establecer protocolos de monitoreo para los elementos de conservación más importantes en las diversas Áreas Marinas Protegidas (AMP) del país. Estos protocolos se basan en la experiencia adquirida en los últimos 15 años en Colombia, a través de iniciativas como el Sistema de Monitoreo de Arrecifes Coralinos (Simac), la Red de Monitoreo de la Calidad de Aguas Marinas y Costeras (Redcam) y el Sistema de Información Pesquera (Sipein). Estas iniciativas han demostrado su fortaleza al trabajar en conjunto con el Sistema Nacional Ambiental (SINA), en particular con las Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales costeras, el Sistema de Parques Nacionales Naturales y las instituciones académicas. El objetivo de estos protocolos de monitoreo para las AMP no solo consiste en obtener información científicamente sólida mediante la selección de variables mínimas, sino también en considerar la capacidad operativa y de mantenimiento a largo plazo de cada una de las instituciones responsables de estas actividades. La experiencia ha demostrado que resulta cada vez más difícil y costoso mantener sistemas de monitoreo que aborden los desafíos locales y proporcionen respuestas relevantes para evaluar la efectividad de la gestión de las áreas con menor incertidumbre.
description: Este trabajo fue realizado entre 2012 y 2014, aplicando la metodología Seagrass Net, adoptada por el INVEMAR desde 2015, y descrita en el documento de Protocolo Indicador Condición Tendencia Praderas de Pastos Marinos (ICTpm), logrando concertar que variables mínimas eran necesarias tomarlas en campo para responder a preguntas de manejo y gestión y de esta forma poder diseñar la red de estaciones específica en cada una de las áreas, partiendo de criterios como la zonificación del manejo y los usos permitidos o no que se desarrollan al interior del AMP.
description: El conjunto de datos se compone de 1.633 registros biológicos de pastos marinos, representado en 1 filos, 2 clase, 18 órdenes, 37 familias, 62 géneros y 109 especies.
DOI: 10.25607/iuaoit
title: Tunisian Polychaetes by 2022

description: This dataset was compiled by a. gathering data and taxonomic revision of polychaetes records from published literature, b. adding new species from sampling on the Gulf of Gabes Tidal channels, and c. from the systematic revision of the polychaetes collection deposited at the Institut National des Sciences et Technoligies de la mer (INSTM); which were confused with their congeneric species. The regional distribution of the species is Western and Central Mediterranean.
DOI: 10.14284/247
title: Benthos monitoring in the intertidal mudflats of Pertuis-Charentais (Bay of Biscay) from 2004 on
DOI: 10.15468/ouseij
title: Galathea II, Danish Deep Sea Expedition 1950-52

description: Database of the specimens from the Galathea II, Danish Deep-Sea Expedition Round the World 1950-52, published in Galathea Report 1-20, Copenhagen 1956-2005. The published specimens are deposited in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Zoological Museum, Copenhagen.
DOI: 10.15472/0fqdp4
title: Datos de monitoreo de la estructura de los manglares de la Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta (Magdalena)

description: Los datos se derivan de la línea de investigación ICTbm: Protocolo indicador Condición Tendencias Bosques de Manglar en el subsistemas de aéreas protegidas marinas. El protocolo evalúa la condición general de integridad biótica y , por tanto, el estado de conservación del bosque de manglar y sus cambios a través del tiempo. En este conjunto de datos se reportan manglares, documentados en estaciones de monitoreo en las regiones del Pacifico continental, Caribe continental y Caribe insular colombiano, que corresponden a 15.392 registros biológicos obtenidos entre el año 2013 y 2019.
DOI: 10.14284/35
title: Cysts from plankton from the South Adriatic Sea
DOI: 10.15468/tigosm
title: cariaco-phytoplankton

description: Since November 1995, the CARIACO Ocean Time Series program has been studying the relationship between surface primary production (carbon fixation rates by photosynthesis of planktonic algae), regional hydrography, physical forcing variables (such as the wind), and the settling flux of particulate organic carbon in the Cariaco Basin. This tectonic depression, located on the continental shelf of Venezuela, shows marked seasonal and interannual variation in hydrography and primary production induced in part by the regular migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). The Cariaco Basin hydrography is affected by North-Atlantic gyre-scale processes, including dispersal of Subtropical Underwater and western boundary current variability, cross-equatorial flow of water masses (Wust, 1964; Muller-Karger et al., 1989), wind-driven upwelling compounded by geostrophic circulation (Richards, 1975; Muller-Karger and Aparicio-Castro, 1994i), ventilation forced by Caribbean Sea eddies (Astor et al., 2003), and river discharge (Yarincik et al., 2000; Lorenzoni, et al. 2009). Due to its restricted circulation and high primary production, the basin is anoxic below ~250 m (Muller-Karger et al., 2001; 2010). In the late 1990's and early 2000's, CARIACO observations measured annual primary production rates of more than 500 gC/m²y, of which over 15-20% was generated by events lasting one month or less. Since 2004 there has been a decrease in primary production rates (annual averages of less than 400 gC/m²y). Still, the annual primary production rates in the Cariaco Basin are comparable to rates estimated using time series observations for Monterey Bay (460 gC/m² y; Chavez, 1996), and higher than rates estimated for Georges Bank, the New York Shelf, and the Oregon Shelf (380, 300, and 190 gC/m² y, respectively; Walsh, 1988). Primary production and vertical particulate organic matter fluxes in the Cariaco Basin are higher than those observed at the oligotrophic BATS and HOT locations (Karl et al., 2001; Steinberg et al., 2001; Thunell et al., 2007). The Basin also experiences sedimentological events caused by earthquakes (Thunell et al., 1999; Lorenzoni et al., 2012) and coastal flooding (Percy et al., 2008; Lorenzoni et al., 2009). All of these phenomena can influence the sediments.
DOI: 10.15468/uohx7l
title: Zoological Museum Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam (NL) - Protozoa

description: The Protozoa collection of the Zoological Museum Amsterdam is modest in size (ca. 100 registered samples) and modest in importance (no nominal types). Its main contents are dry Foraminifera. Approximately half of the specimens are collected in Indonesia during the Siboga Expedition in 1899-1900.
DOI: 10.6092/1f4964a0-0d15-4093-97e7-8f3929fef8d8
title: Phytoplankton South Adriatic-PRISMA1-Flussi Project

description: Phytoplankton abundance and composition were determined in the South Adriatic Sea in the framework of the Italian National Research Project PRISMA1-Flussi Project (1995-1996).
description: Sample collection and fixation with Ca(HCO3)2-buffered formaldehyde (0.8% final concentration). Cell abundance and species composition of phytoplankton were estimated according to Utermöhl’s method (1958), using an inverted microscope equipped with phase contrast, at 200-320-400x final magnifications.inverted microscope equipped with phase contrast, at 200-320-400x final magnifications.
description: DwC-A file
DOI: 10.14284/15
title: POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Sea bird sightings in the Azores between 2004 and 2013 recorded by Biosphere Expedition
DOI: 10.14284/276
title: Abundance, density and biomass of Copepoda Harpacticoida on brown algae of the genus Cystoseira sampled at Calvi Bay (Corsica) in September 1982
DOI: 10.15468/97nj93
title: Nivå Bay species list, Zealand, Denmark

description: The inner part of Nivå Bay, Zealand, Denmark. Investigations on a 2-hectare (ha) rectangular area delimited by a pier and by submerged stone settings, which are remains of a never-completed naval harbor from the 18th century. The water depth is 1 to 1.5 meters (m); Species lists forming the basis of the publications: Fenchel, T. & Finlay, B. J. 2004. The ubiquity of small species: patterns of local and global biodiversity. BioScience 54:777-784 Finlay, B. J. & Fenchel, T. 2004. Cosmopolitan metapopulations of free-living microbial eukaryotes. Protist 155:237-244.
DOI: 10.25607/xjo4dj
title: DFO Maritimes Region Cetacean Sightings

description: This is an OBIS formatted version of the Fisheries and Oceans Canada Maritimes Region Whale Sightings Database for visual sightings of cetaceans (e.g. whales, dolphins and porpoises) mostly from the Scotian Shelf/Bay of Fundy portions of Canada's east coast, as well as the Gulf of St. Lawrence in recent years. The collectors of these sightings are diverse (e.g. NGO researchers, fisheries observers, private consultants, etc.), mostly on-board ships and mostly collected since the late 1990s.

The horizontal resolution of the data (e.g. distance between sightings) varies by a vast amount - just metres in some areas like the Bay of Fundy, and tens to thousands of kilometers elsewhere, like off northern Labrador. A small portion of the database are standardized marine mammal survey data, where a line transect sightings survey is conducted and sightings effort is logged. Only these survey data allow for the calculation of Sightings Per Unit Effort and the use of Distance Sampling methods, leading to a statistically-based, unbiased abundance estimate. This information is not provided in this resource.

This resource contains presence information only. No absences are recorded.

The design and structure of the main project database is consistent with other DFO databases and with the University of Rhode Island (URI) whale sightings database. Departures from the URI standard (mainly species and gear codes) are easily translated by users of either database.

This database is a compilation of a number of datasets, most of the data being gathered opportunistically. More detailed information on the individual sightings, human interactions, and animal behaviour are available from the source database and the resource creator should be contacted.
DOI: 10.14284/261
title: Study of epibenthos and ichthyofauna of an industrial waste discharge area in the Belgian Continental Shelf (1976-1981)
DOI: 10.17031/fyi30u
title: 1776-1997 Paul F. Clark North East Atlantic Crab Atlas

description: A detailed distribution of true crabs (Brachyura) in the North-East Atlantic. Approximately 11,200 marine record cards were collated. Data obtained from literature records, crab material held in collections of the British Museum (Natural History), field record cards returned by individuals, specimens held in institutions and organisations other than the British Museum, biological surveys and collecting expeditions.
DOI: 10.14284/290
title: Historical landings from the Rijeka (Croatia) fish market between 1914 and 1932
DOI: 10.14284/344
title: Subtidal hyperbenthos monitoring in function of a foreshore suppletion at the Belgian coast, period 2013-2016

description: What ecological effects does a foreshore suppletion, and a beach suppletion, have on the marine ecosystem in the intertidal and shallow surf zone (
description: This dataset contain the hyperbenthic data collected in the subtidal area. The hyperbenthos contain the biota collect in the first meter of the water column, and therefore living in close contact with the bottom and are collected by means of a hyperbenthic sledge. The sampling design for the monitoring is following the BACI-design (Before After Control Impact), with a control area with similar habitat characteristics outside the influence of the suppletion activity. There is sampled before the suppletion and in the following two years after suppletion. In this BACI-monitoring, the seasonal aspect is taken into account, by taking samples in spring (March) and autumn (September). In the subtidal area, three depth strata were determined to investigated the influence of the suppletion outside the suppletion area. Stratum a (between low water line and -2m TAW) is the area were the foreshore suppletion is executed. Stratum b and c are taken respectively the depth zones -3m to -4m and -5m to -6m TAW. The amount of sampling locations was determined by the client and contains six tracks for each sampling moment. In each stratum two tracks were taken and the sampling start at the moment of high tide, starting at stratum a. The samples were taken with a hyperbenthic sledge (with increased weight) by dragging it over the bottom for 15 minutes (1000-1500meter). This was done with a constant speed and in line with the currents. The exact distance of the track was determined by calculating the distance between the start- and stop coordinate. The hyperbenthic sledge consist of a metal frame of 100*40cm, with two nets above each other (0.5m in height each). The content of both nets were kept separately. The samples were fixed by an 8% formaldehyde-seawater solution. All biota were determined and counted to species level were possible and biomass is determined by wet weight. The biomass values from the fish species present was not determined. The density and biomass values were standardized to 1000m².
DOI: 10.14284/395
title: Italian official Adriatic (Mediterranean Sea) landings between 1953 and 2012

description: Italian annual landings (1953–2012) for the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea originated from official Italian statistics on the fishery, reported by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) from 1953 to 2004, and by the Institute for Economic Research in Fishery and Aquaculture (IREPA) from 2005 to 2012.
description: Until 2001, landings were published in the ISTAT annual bulletins (printed format) while after 2002 they were available in digital format. The method of landings data collection changed in 2005. ISTAT collected monthly landings data (census survey) at Marine Compartment level from Port Authorities using standardised paper templates, while IREPA performed sample surveys applying the Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) technique following ISTAT guidelines. In the dataset, landings are aggregated at the level of Italian administrative regions (Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Emilia Romagna, Marche, Abruzzo and Molise) and do not include discarded, illegal and unreported catches. In the original documents, species were cited with their common names, thus it was necessary to attribute them their scientific name. Common names reported in the original documents changed over time, and they were updated according to the actual official name as defined by the Italian Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies in 2008. Overall, information on 120 marketed categories are available in the dataset (15,077 records), but the taxonomic resolution of landings changed over time ranging from a minimum of 31 (1958) to a maximum of 81 categories (1955-1957). Marketed categories may include one or more species. Multispecies categories usually group taxonomically similar species, i.e. species of the same genus or family. The statistics are referred to landings from capture sea- and freshwater-fisheries in the Adriatic Sea landed by Italian boats.
DOI: 10.14284/57
title: Zooplankton - Crustacea from the Taranto Seas
DOI: 10.14284/137
title: Influence of light on the fixation of Ostrea edulis and Crepidula fornicata on oyster collectors in 1964
DOI: 10.14284/209
title: ImageDOP Bentic Video Annotations in the Faial-Pico Channel in 2011
DOI: 10.14284/280
title: Sponge faunas of exposed and sheltered reef flats in eastern Indonesia in 1984
DOI: 10.14284/491
title: Norfish: Dutch-Icelandic cod fishery, 1520-1852

description: NorFish is a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant led by Prof Poul Holm in Trinity College Dublin, focuses on the premise that a 16th century shift in marine fish pricing and supply in conjunction with the Little Ice Age and lowering of sea temperatures not only rise to the North Atlantic Fish Revolution but also forms one of the first documented examples of the disrupting effects of globalisation and climate change. The project examines the role of the Fish Revolution for a range of inter-related aspects of North Atlantic history, with NorFish’s interdisciplinary team drawing on archaeology, history, cartography, geography, and ecology to develop interpretative frameworks that synthesise a broad spectrum of source data to assess the overall objective of the project. NorFish’s interdisciplinary team draws on archaeology, history, cartography, geography, and ecology to assess the objectives of the project
description: The first quantitative evidence of Dutch cod fishing off the Icelandic coast is reported in 1655; Captain Jelle Alberts, from Vlieland in Friesland (Frisia) a province of the Netherlands, returned from Icelandic waters after 11 weeks of fishing with a cargo of salted cod. The condition of sale of these sated cod was that each specimen had to measure at least 22 inches to the tail (56cm) or else it would only count as half a cod (two would be counted as one).
DOI: 10.14284/72
title: Study on plankton at the port of Ostend in 1965
DOI: 10.15468/vgbdvx
title: Mollusc data of Molltax, Norway

description: Molluscs from Skagerak, from the observation database of Per Bie Wikander, Molltax, Grimstad, Norway
DOI: 10.15472/ce2uim
title: Caracterización ecológica y de la diversidad en los ecosistemas de arrecifes de coral y pastos marinos en la jurisdicción marina de CORPAMAG, departamento del Magdalena, Caribe Colombiano

description: -Determinar la estructura y diversidad del componente bentónico de los arrecifes coralinos, a nivel de categorías generales y componentes secundarios de cobertura. -Estimar la estructura y diversidad de las comunidades de peces y macroinvertebrados móviles en arrecifes coralinos y pastos marinos por medio de censos visuales.
DOI: 10.14284/186
title: Vegetation and ecology of tidal marshes in the Zwin (Knokke-Heist, West-Vlaanderen)