EMODnet product catalogue
Live hard coral cover (Essential Ocean Variable) in European waters (2023)
This layer shows the current known extent and distribution of live hard coral cover in European waters, collated by EMODnet Seabed Habitats. The point and polygon layers were last updated in 2023. Lophelia pertusa and Coral gardens are both on the OSPAR List of threatened and/or declining species and habitats. The purpose was to produce a data product that would provide the best compilation of evidence for the essential ocean variable (EOV) known as Hard coral cover and composition (sub-variable: Live hard coral cover and extent), as defined by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). The geographic extent of this product was extended in 2023 to include jurisdictional waters (including continental shelf and claimed extended continental shelf) of EU Member States, the United Kingdom (UK) and Norway including areas in the Caribbean Sea.
Simple
- Alternate title
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GB999002
- Date (Revision)
- 2023-09-20
- Citation identifier
- 735ea8c9-5bb7-48a2-a41d-57e521f97ae8
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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The purpose was to produce a data product that would provide the best compilation of evidence for the essential ocean variable (EOV) known as Hard coral cover and composition (sub-variable: Live hard coral cover and extent), as defined by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS).
- Credit
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EMODnet Seabed Habitats product (2023). Contains data from the:
1. Global Distribution of Cold-water Corals (v5.1 March 2021). Freiwald A, Rogers A, Hall-Spencer J, Guinotte JM, Davies AJ, Yesson C, Martin CS, Weatherdon LV (2021). Global distribution of cold-water corals (version 5.1). Fifth update to the dataset in Freiwald et al. (2004) by UNEP-WCMC, in collaboration with Andre Freiwald and John Guinotte. Cambridge (UK): UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Data DOI: https://doi.org/10.34892/72×9-rt61
2. Global Distribution of Coral Reefs (v4.1 March 2021). UNEP-WCMC, WorldFish Centre, WRI, TNC (2021). Global distribution of warm-water coral reefs, compiled from multiple sources including the Millennium Coral Reef Mapping Project. Version 4.1. Includes contributions from IMaRS-USF and IRD (2005), IMaRS-USF (2005) and Spalding et al. (2001). Cambridge (UK): UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Data DOI: https://doi.org/10.34892/t2wk-5t34
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EMODnet Seabed Habitats
Marine Mapping Scientist
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Data is available under a creative commons attribution-NonCommercial licence (CC BY-NC 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Geoscientific information
- Oceans
- Environment description
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Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; QGIS 3.16.5
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- Begin date
- 2019-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/3857 / 8.1.1
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Composite
- Geometric object count
- 22307
- Distribution format
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Name Version Shapefile
ArcGIS Version 10.0
- Transfer size
- 0.334
- OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Evaluation Method
- Direct internal
- Evaluation method description
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Bildstein, T., Fiorentino, D., G├╝nther, C.P., Pesch, R., R├╝ckert, P., Schr├Âder, W,, Schuchardt. B. (2014) Cluster 6 Biotopkartierung: Endberichtsentwurf - Teil Nordsee. - (unver├Âff. Bericht i. A. des Bundesamtes f├╝r Naturschutz (BfN)
- Title
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Bildstein, T., Fiorentino, D., G├╝nther, C.P., Pesch, R., R├╝ckert, P., Schr├Âder, W,, Schuchardt. B. (2014) Cluster 6 Biotopkartierung: Endberichtsentwurf - Teil Nordsee. - (unver├Âff. Bericht i. A. des Bundesamtes f├╝r Naturschutz (BfN)
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-10-01
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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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
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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This data product is a work in progress. The original polygon file was produced by the 2017-2019 EMODnet Seabed Habitats consortium and the method is described in O'Keefe and Lillis (2019). The original point file was produced by the 2019-2021 EMODnet Seabed Habitats consortium and the method is described in Lillis (2021). Both layers were last updated in 2023 using a combination of data extracted from the EMODnet Seabed Habitat database (May 2023) and the UNEP-WCMC datasets: 1. Global Distribution of Cold-water Corals (v5.1 March 2021) and Global Distribution of Coral Reefs (v4.1 March 2021). Only a subset of the UNEP-WCMC datasets were used in this product, namely in the areas of interest in the Caribbean Sea. The products were clipped to these areas and then combined with the EMODnet Seabed Habitats data. The attributes were amended to remove many fields that are redundant for this data layer e.g. taxonomic fields and areas. Information about the citation (renamed source) and the dataset IDs and habitat have been retained. Where overlaps in polygons occured preference was given to the habitat maps from survey collated by EMODnet Seabed Habitats.
- Source
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- EMODnet Seabed Habitats collated habitat point data
- OSPAR Habitats in the North-East Atlantic Ocean - 2020 Point records
- EMODnet Seabed Habitats collated habitat maps
- https://data-gis.unep-wcmc.org/portal/sharing/rest/content/items/fb9b160602e84a139ffc4fc16cf74bfc/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=default&output=html
- https://data-gis.unep-wcmc.org/portal/sharing/rest/content/items/0613604367334836863f5c0c10e452bf/info/metadata/metadata.xml?format=default&output=html
Metadata
- File identifier
- 735ea8c9-5bb7-48a2-a41d-57e521f97ae8 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-02-15T15:54:13.217Z
- Metadata standard name
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INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
- Metadata standard version
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V. 1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role EMODnet Seabed Habitats
Marine Mapping Scientist
Point of contact
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