2018 - 2020 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) Benthic Genera Presence and Absence in the North Sea from 1990 to 2011

Distribution data for benthic genera in the North Sea, covering a 22-year timespan from 1990 to 2011. This data accompanies the manuscript “Capturing threshold responses of marine benthos along gradients of natural and anthropogenic change”, by E. Couce, G.H. Engelhard and M. Schratzberger, Journal of Applied Ecology, in press. It was obtained from re-analysis of OBIS benthic data supplemented with benthic survey data collected by Cefas in the same period, with the study region partitioned into a 0.25° x 0.25° regular grid.本数据集为北海底栖属的分布数据，时间跨度为1990年至2011年，共计22年。本数据集配套E. Couce、G.H. Engelhard与M. Schratzberger合著的稿件《沿自然与人为变化梯度捕捉海洋底栖生物的阈值响应》，该稿件刊载于《应用生态学杂志》（Journal of Applied Ecology），目前处于付印阶段。本数据集通过重新分析海洋生物地理信息系统（OBIS, Ocean Biogeographic Information System）的底栖数据，并补充同期由Cefas采集的底栖调查数据得到；研究区域被划分为0.25°×0.25°的规则网格。