Data were collected as part of wider coastal management programmes, sponsored by the Norwegian Polar Research Institute. The main purpose of this data collection was to present an ecological inventory of the Svalbard Archipelago and to map the areas of great biological importance.

In 1997 and 1998 soft-bottom fauna of the arctic glacial fjord Kongsfjorden was extensively sampled and major communities were identified along the fjord axis, which were believed to be related to the diminishing influence of the glacial activity. This set of data was collected as part of a PhD programme and was the result of repeated sampling in search for natural or climate driven community changes.

Dataset of meiobenthos in the framework of Manuela.

Within the "Support MSFD implementation in the Black Sea through establishing a regional monitoring system of cetaceans (D1) and noise monitoring (D11) for achieving GES", financed by European Commission - No. 110661/2018/794677/SUB/ENV.C2, a dedicated aerial survey for marine mammals, sea birds and marine debris using distance line transect methods was performed in 2019 in territorial and EEZs of five of the Black Sea riparian countries.

The Pomorie Lake is a natural hyper-saline lake – a sea coast lagoon, part of which has been converted to salt ponds. Also, it includes salty marshes and reed fields. Together with the Burgas wetlands, the lake forms the largest and most significant conservation complex along the southern Black Sea coastline. The area includes the estuary of the Aheloi River.The total Ramsar site area is 921,5 ha.Protected territory since 2011. In 2002 the lake is proclaimed for a wetland with international importance according to the Ramsar convention. In 1989 the territory is designated as an Important Bird Area and in 2007 it became part of the Natura 2000 network: Protected Site “Pomoriysko ezero” with code BG0000152 according to the Bird Directive and Protected site“Pomorie” with code BG0000620 according to the Habitat Directive.The following natural habitat types of significance for conservation, according to the Biodiversity Act and to the Habitats Directive have been established: 1150 Coastal lagoons; 1160 Large shallow inlets and bays; 1170 Reefs; 1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand; 1530 Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes; 2110 Embryonic shifting dunes; 2120 Pannonic dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria (white dunes); 92D0 Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae).

Map of broad habitat types in Bulgarian Black Sea shelf which equate to one or more habitat types of the EUNIS classification

Map of benthic biotopes in the sediments in part of Natura 2000 SAC Ropotamo, the Bulgarian Black Sea. The biotopes were defined based on the sediment type, depth range and the typical associated macrozoobenthos communities as differentiated by multivariate similarity analyses.

This is the first map of sandbanks in Bulgarian Black Sea drawn based on expert interpretation of the following data: point data on the type of substrate (sediments, hard), grain size of sediments, sediment thickness determined by divers, acoustic profiling of the seabed morphology.

This is the first map of reefs in Bulgarian Black Sea drawn based on expert interpretation of the following data: point data on the type of substrate (sediments, hard), rock samples, sediment thickness over bedrock determined by divers, acoustic profiling of the seabed morphology.

These data were collected as part of a large study, aiming to compare the structure of the nematode communities at two comparable sublittoral sites, located in the Southern Baltic and the south-eastern part of the North Sea.