Abundance across trophic guilds dataset in support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 4 (D04C02, 2018 Reporting)

This dataset is part of the 2018 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 4, criterion 2. Three distinct datasets are published for this criterion.'Occurrence of breeding seabirds' describes the observation of eight seabird species (Common tern, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, Small Black-backed Gull, Yellow-legged gull, Big Stern and Little Stern) on the Belgian coast between 1992 and 2015. 'Density of seabirds' describes the density of seabirds (N birds/km) observed at large in the Belgian part of the North Sea between 1987 and 2016 (three surveys a year). Thirteen species are monitored and the evolution of each species density is shown as diagrams.'Occurrence of important benthic species' describes the results of Van Veen sampling campaigns performed between 2009 and 2014 in the Belgian part of the North Sea. Benthic species are counted and identified (e.g. Annelida, Echinodermata,..).

Date (Creation): 2018-09-07

Date (Revision): 2021-12-08

Date (Publication): 2025-12-12

Title: Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation): 2016-05-19

Code: https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2011

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2011
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Eric Stienen, Nicolas Vanermen (2018). Density of seabirds. (2) Eric Stienen, Wouter Courtens (2018). Occurence of breeding seabirds. (3) Gert Van Hoey (2018). Occurence of important benthic species. (4) Els Torreele, Loes Vandecasteele (2018). Occurence of thornback ray (Raja clavata). (5) Els Torreele, Loes Vandecasteele (n.d.). GIS layer for Raja Clavata occurence in the North Sea (Belgian cruises) (MSFD).

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Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher
Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)	info@inbo.be	Author
Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek - Visserij (ILVO)	info@ilvo.be	Author

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Sea regions

Keywords

Sea regions
Federal government
Reporting INSPIRE

European Legislation Identifier

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)

Marine Regions

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets

Directive 2008/56/EC

Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

Environment

NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0

Marine food webs are at normal abundance and diversity

INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope

National

Eionet Central Data Repository

(Criteria) D4C2 - Abundance across trophic guilds

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Other constraints: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access.

Use limitation: No conditions apply to use.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

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Oceans

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

Date

Code: North Sea

gml32:beginPosition: 2012-01-01

gml32:endPosition: 2016-12-31

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://www.bmdc.be/NODC/ditsAttach/datasource/6078/20181012_1228250807476078_broedvogels.xlsx	Occurence of breeding seabirds. Eric Stienen, Wouter Courtens

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://www.bmdc.be/NODC/ditsAttach/datasource/6081/20181217_045044BEL_BTS_RC_2010-2017.xlsx	Occurence of thornback ray (Raja clavata). Els Torreele, Loes Vandecasteele

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://www.bmdc.be/NODC/ditsAttach/datasource/6083/20181012_1224411021556083_Benthic_species.xlsx	Occurence of important benthic species. Gert Van Hoey

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2011	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: 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

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: Yes

Statement: Data on breeding sea birds are gathered by INBO, those on Raja clavata and benthic species by ILVO, and are presented to BMDC as excel files. The headers of the excel files are normalized and quality managed as Common-Layout files, and are awaiting import into IDOD.

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File identifier: bmdc.be:dataset:2011 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-12T16:12:41.011Z

Metadata standard name: Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003/19139

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

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