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Non-Hierarchical habitat classification in the Atlantic Ocean
Citation
McQuaid K.; Howell, K.; University of Plymouth (UoP), United Kingdom; (2023): Non-Hierarchical benthic habitat classification in the Atlantic Ocean. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8226
Contact: Howell, Kerry ;

Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Classification of the seabed in the Atlantic Ocean into broad-scale benthic habitats employing a non-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. The numbers in the raster layer correspond to individual classes. Description of these classes is given in McQuaid, K.A. et al. (2023). 


Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Data not evaluated, GeoTIFF, Habitat classification, Metadata conformant, No limitations to public access, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), A, Atlantic

Geographical coverage
A, Atlantic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 January 2016 - 31 December 2016

Contributors
University of Plymouth (UOP), moredata creator

Project
Mission Atlantic, more

Publication
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

Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2023-03-14
Information last updated: 2024-04-25
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