DE003000

The map depicts the current status of soft bottom infauna biotopes within the German Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea according to the new German Red List Biotope classification system (Level 5 - Finck et al. 2017)and was produced within a nationalproject on benthic habitat mapping in the GermanEEZ of theNorth and Baltic Sea funded and coordinated by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation(Bildstein et al. 2014; Pesch et al. 2016). Full coverage biotope mapping was accomplishedby applying Random Forests on site specific data on six infaunacommunitiesand predictor data on e.g. topographical and sedimentological features of the sea floor for a 600 m x 600 m raster. The benthic communities had been derived from infauna abundance data by use of fuzzy clustering (for corresponding methodological details please refer to Fiorentino et al. 2017). In its original form the map depicts six benthic communities including Phoronis. Since inthe new German Red List Biotope classification system Phoronis is dealt with in Level 6 corresponding areas were split and assigned by expert judgement to the Tellina-fabula and Amphiura-filiformis community.

Alternate title: DE003000

Date (Creation): 2014-04-01

Citation identifier: 2014-04-01

Presentation form: Digital map

Purpose: The map depicts the current status of soft bottom infauna biotopes within the German Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea according to the new German Red List Biotope classification system (Level 5 - Finck et al. 2017). The map was developed to serve as a first, preliminary broad scale overview for assessments and is currently being updated within a national biotope mapping project.

Credit: 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)

Finck, P., Heinze, S., Raths, U., Riecken, U. & Ssymank, A. (2017): Rote Liste der gef├ñhrdeten Biotoptypen Deutschlands Dritte fortgeschriebene Fassung 2017 Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 156, 637 S.

Fiorentino, D.; Pesch, R.; G├╝nther, C.-P., Gutow, L.: Holstein, J.; Dannheim, J.; Ebbe, B.; Bildstein, T.; Schroeder, W.; Schuchardt, B.; Brey, T.; Wiltshire, K. (2017): A ÔÇÿfuzzy clusteringÔÇÖ approach to conceptual confusion:

how to classify natural ecological associations. In: Marine Ecology Progress Series (accepted September 2017)

Pesch, R., Propp, C., Darr, A., Bartholom├ñ, A., Beisiegel, K., Bildstein, T., Fiorentino, D., Hass, C., Holler, P., Lambers-Huesmann, M., Richter, P., Papenmeier, S., G├╝nther, C.-P., Schiele, K., Schuchardt, B., Schwarzer, K., Tauber, F., Zeiler, M. & Zettler, M. (2016): Progress in marine biotope mapping in Germany. - In: Progress in Marine Conservation in Europe 2015: Proceedings of the conference, Stralsund, Germany, 14-18 September 2015. Ed. by H. v. Nordheim and K. Wollny Goerke. Bonn: Bundesamt f├╝r Naturschutz (BfN-Skripten 451), 978-3-89624-188-7

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
BIOCONSULT Schuchardt&Scholle GbR	PD Dr. Roland Pesch	pesch@bioconsult.de	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: Irregular

GemetInspireTheme

Habitats and biotopes

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Use limitation: Since this a preliminary product the map is not available for download yet.

Access constraints: Restricted

Use constraints: Restricted

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

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Geoscientific information
Oceans
Biota

Environment description: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.4.1.5686

Reference system identifier: EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258 / 8.1.1

Topology level: Geometry only

Geometric object type: Composite

Geometric object count: 352

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Shape-File	ArcGIS Version 10.0

Transfer size: 0.334

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Evaluation Method: Direct internal

Evaluation method description: 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: 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: 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: 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: Corresponding details are given in the national report which is not officially publiushed yet.

Description: 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)

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File identifier: f93a6f2f-03eb-489c-badd-3955d41b7ecf XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Hierarchy level name: dataset

Date stamp: 2020-01-15T12:12:23

Metadata standard name: INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119

Metadata standard version: V. 1.2

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
BIOCONSULT Schuchardt&Scholle GbR	PD Dr. Roland Pesch	pesch@bioconsult.de	Point of contact

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