OSPAR Habitats in the North-East Atlantic Ocean - 2020 Point records

This is a compilation of OSPAR habitat point data for the northeast Atlantic submitted by OSPAR contracting parties. The compilation is coordinated by the UK's Joint Nature Conservation Committee, working with a representative from each of the OSPAR coastal contracting parties. This public dataset does not contain records relating to sensitive species (e.g. Ostrea edulis) in specific areas, or where data are restricted from public release by the owner's use limitations. This version (v2020) was published in July 2021.

Date (Publication): 2021-07-12

Edition: 2020

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: Public point dataset showing distribution of habitats on the OSPAR list of threatened and/or declining species and habitats within the North-east Atlantic Region.

Credit: OSPAR 2020

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
JNCC		OSPARmapping@jncc.gov OSPARmapping@jncc.gov.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually

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Use limitation: Please see Dataset Level Metadata for any usage limitations regarding specific submissions.

Use limitation: Please see Dataset level metadata for usage constraints on individal submissions contained within this dataset.

Use constraints: Copyright

Other constraints: no limitations on public access

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Biota
Oceans

Environment description: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.1.3143

Reference system identifier: EPSG / 4326 / 7.11.2

Topology level: Geometry only

Geometric object type: Point

Geometric object count: 35367

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	http://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/access-data/download-data/?linkid=ospar2018_poly	EMODnet Seabed Habitats downloads

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)

Pass

Metadata

File identifier: 06c63c6c-31c0-45c7-83a6-6e306016f590 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Hierarchy level name: dataset

Date stamp: 2021-07-12T17:27:39

Metadata standard name: INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119

Metadata standard version: V. 1.2

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
JNCC		OSPARmapping@jncc.gov OSPARmapping@jncc.gov.uk	Point of contact

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