ICES Metadata Catalogue
Seagrass cover (Essential Ocean Variable) in European waters (2023)
This layer shows the current known extent and distribution of Seagrass meadows in European waters, collated by EMODnet Seabed Habitats. The point and polygon layers were last updated in 2023.The purpose was to produce a data product that would provide the best compilation of evidence for the essential ocean variable (EOV) known as Seagrass cover and composition (sub-variable: Areal extent of seagrass meadows), as defined by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). Seagrasses provide essential habitat and nursery areas for many marine fauna. There are approximately 72 seagrass species that belong to four major groups: Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae, Posidoniaceae and Cymodoceaceae. Zostera beds and Cymodecea meadows are named on the OSPAR Threatened or Declining Habitats list. Posidonia beds are protected under Annex I of the EU Habitats Directive. The geographic extent of this product was extended in 2023 to include jurisdictional waters (including continental shelf and claimed extended continental shelf) of EU Member States, the United Kingdom (UK) and Norway including areas in the Caribbean Sea.
Simple
- Alternate title
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GB999003
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-20
- Citation identifier
- 39746d9c-4220-425c-bc26-7cb3056c36a5
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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The purpose was to produce a data product that would provide the best compilation of evidence for the essential ocean variable (EOV) known as Seagrass cover and composition (sub-variable: Areal extent of seagrass meadows), as defined by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).
- Credit
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EMODnet Seabed Habitats product (2023). Contains data from the Global Distribution of Seagrasses (v7.1 March 2021). UNEP-WCMC, Short FT (2021). Global distribution of seagrasses (version 7.1). Seventh update to the data layer used in Green and Short (2003). Cambridge (UK): UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Data DOI: https://doi.org/10.34892/x6r3-d211
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EMODnet Seabed Habitats
Marine Mapping Scientist
emodnetseabedhabitats@jncc.gov emodnetseabedhabitats@jncc.gov.uk
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Data is available under a creative commons attribution-NonCommercial licence (CC BY-NC 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Environment description
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Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; QGIS Desktop 3.16.5
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- Begin date
- 2019-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857 / 8.1.1
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Composite
- Geometric object count
- 100000
- Distribution format
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Name Version Shapefile
ArcGIS Version 10.0
- Transfer size
- 0.334
- OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
- Evaluation method description
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Bildstein, T., Fiorentino, D., G├╝nther, C.P., Pesch, R., R├╝ckert, P., Schr├Âder, W,, Schuchardt. B. (2014) Cluster 6 Biotopkartierung: Endberichtsentwurf - Teil Nordsee. - (unver├Âff. Bericht i. A. des Bundesamtes f├╝r Naturschutz (BfN)
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-10-01
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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This data product is a work in progress. The original polygon file was produced by the 2017-2019 EMODnet Seabed Habitats consortium and the method is described in O'Keefe and Lillis (2019). The point file was first produced by the 2019-2021 EMODnet Seabed Habitats consortium and the method is described in Lillis (2021). Both layers were last updated in 2023 using a combination of data extracted from the EMODnet Seabed Habitat database (May 2023) and the UNEP-WCMC dataset: Global Distribution of Seagrasses. Only a subset of the UNEP-WCMC datasets were used in this product, namely in the areas of interest in the Caribbean Sea. The products were clipped to these areas and then combined with the EMODnet Seabed Habitats data. The attributes were amended to remove many fields that are redundant for this data layer e.g. taxonomic fields and areas. Information about the citation (renamed source) and the dataset IDs and habitat have been retained. Where overlaps in polygons occured preference was given to the habitat maps from survey collated by EMODnet Seabed Habitats.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 39746d9c-4220-425c-bc26-7cb3056c36a5 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-02-15T15:50:07.807Z
- Metadata standard name
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INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
- Metadata standard version
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V. 1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EMODnet Seabed Habitats
Marine Mapping Scientist
Point of contact
Overviews
Spatial extent
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