Dataset

Benthic otter trawl catch data, Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Northeast Atlantic Ocean, RRS Discovery III cruise 226, 1997

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These data record the results of processing otter trawl catches (OTSB14; Merrett & Marshall, 1980) from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC, UK) long-term study of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP), including the PAP-Sustained Observatory time-series. The data concern catches recovered during the RRS Discovery III cruise 226 in 1997. Rice, A.L. et al. (1997). RRS Discovery Cruise 226, 12 Mar – 10 Apr 1997. BENGAL: High resolution temporal and spatial study of the Benthic Biology and Geochemistry of a northeastern Atlantic abyssal Locality. Southampton Oceanography Centre, Cruise Report, No. 13, 76 pp.| https://www.bodc.ac.uk/resources/inventories/cruise_inventory/reports/d226.pdf

Citation: Horton T, Serpell-Stevens A, Valls Domedel G, Bett B J (2024). Benthic otter trawl catch data, Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Northeast Atlantic Ocean, RRS Discovery III cruise 226, 1997. Version 1.2. The Discovery Collections. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=pap_megafauna_discovery226_1997&v=1.2

Published: July 05, 2024 at 09:40

URL: https://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=pap_megafauna_discovery226_1997

Tammy Horton
National Oceanography Centre

Amanda Serpell-Stevens
National Oceanography Centre

Georgina Valls Domedel
National Oceanography Centre

Brian James Bett
National Oceanography Centre

14,200
occurrence records
24,223
measurements and facts
62
taxa
32
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 817
5.8%

Measurement types

DNA derived data