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Hierarchical benthic habitat classification in the Atlantic Ocean
Citation
McQuaid K.; Howell, K.; University of Plymouth (UoP), United Kingdom; (2023): Hierarchical benthic habitat classification in the Atlantic Ocean. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8223
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Classification of the Atlantic Ocean seabed into broad-scale benthic habitats employing a hierarchical top-down clustering approach aimed at informing Marine Spatial Planning. This work was performed at the University of Plymouth in 2021 with data provided by a wide group of partners representing the nations surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. It classifies continuous environmental data into discrete classes that can be compared to observed biogeographical patterns at various scales. It has 3 levels of classification. For ease of use, a layer is provided for each level. Level 1 has 4 classes. Level 2 has 15 classes nested within level 1. Layers indices are 2 digits (1[level1 class index]1[level 2 class index]). Level 3 has 157 classes nested within level 2 and class names have 4 digits (1digit[level1 class index]1[level 2 class index]2[level 3 class index]). Note that the classification was performed for the whole world and thus it has more classes than in the presented layer. moreThis project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 862428 (MISSION ATLANTIC). Scope Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Data not evaluated, GeoTIFF, Habitat classification, Habitat types and species distribution and range (Habitats Directive), Metadata conformant, No limitations to public access, Regional, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), A, Atlantic Geographical coverage A, Atlantic [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
1 January 2016 - 31 December 2016 Contributors
University of Plymouth (UOP), more, data creator
Project
Mission Atlantic, more
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Used in this dataset
McQuaid, K.A. et al. (2023). Broad-scale benthic habitat classification of the South Atlantic. Prog. Oceanogr. 214: 103016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103016, more
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Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2023-03-13
Information last updated: 2024-06-05
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