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Seafloor habitats in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (EUNIS and Natura2000)
Citation
Royal Belgian Institute For Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Ecosystems Data Processing And Modelling (ECODAM). (2021). Seafloor habitats in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (EUNIS and Natura2000) [Data set]. Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC). https://doi.org/10.24417/83bdcd87-e4ea-4a76-ab98-ff9f45e529f5
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
The dataset describes the physical habitats in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. It uses the EUNIS classification system as well as the MSFD Habitat codelist for the description and classification of the BPNS. It provides also information on the energy, biozone and type of substrate for the different areas in the BPNS.

Scope
Themes:
Coastal studies (e.g. shores, estuaries), Geography, Geology - Geophysics - Sedimentation
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Habitat Directive, Physical habitats, Physical relief, Seafloor, Belgian part of the North Sea

Geographical coverage
Belgian part of the North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1 January 2014 on [In Progress]

Contributors
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Geologie; Renard Centre of Marine Geology (RCMG), moredata creator
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu; Dataverwerking en modellering van ecosystemen (ECODAM), moredata creator
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), moredata manager
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (IRScNB/KBIN), moredata ownerdataset publisher

Related datasets
(Partly) included in:
SUMES project. D3.4: Ecosystem services maps (supporting files), more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: GIS maps
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2024-03-21
Information last updated: 2024-03-21
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