Flat oyster beds distribution in Brittany, France (FOREVER project)
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This map show the occurrence of flat oyster beds in Brittany region (France), in the Atlantic and Channel seas. The typology used is EUNIS 2012.\nFlat Oyster Recovery (FOREVER) is a project realized between 2018 and 2020 with funding from the European Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Fund (EAMEF). The aims of the project were to carry out an inventory and assess the state of health of the main remaining wild populations of flat oysters in Brittany. Data was collected between 2015 and 2020 by IFREMER, Litt'OBS, Cochet Environnement and Plongée Montfort. \n Data, images and project's report are also available with the DOI https://doi.org/10.17882/79821. Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Benthos Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Ostrea edulis · Oyster beds · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -4,5412; MinLat: 47,5362 - MaxLong: -2,0189; MaxLat: 48,8426 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
2 October 2014 - 30 March 2021 Taxonomic coverage
Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2026-05-01
Metadatarecord created: 2026-05-05
Information last updated: 2026-06-04
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