SWG Coastal and marine invertebrate observations

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Description

Founded in 1941, the ‘Strandwerkgemeenschap’ aims to promote the study of marine biology, and in particular the flora and fauna of the Dutch coast. The organisation keeps a register of observations of fauna and flora, mostly made by experienced citizen scientists. The data consists of various groups of marine invertebrata including Mollusca (56,390), Arthropoda (11,004), Cnidaria (4,100), Bryozoa (3,345), Echinodermata (2,968) and Annelida (2,169), and other smaller phyla. Also many sightings of fishes, cartilaginous fishes and marine mammals such as porpoise, white-beaked dolphin and striped dolphin were made. A total of over 3,000 different species were observed and recorded. Dutch coastal fauna and flora are undergoing rapid changes. An overview of observations of a wide range of species within a large temporal range, contributes to a better understanding and anticipation of future developments and environmental changes.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 98,360 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

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859

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Strandwerkgemeenschap. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 44c5565c-b772-404e-9231-fc78d77dfbb4. Strandwerkgemeenschap publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.