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Biological samples from the french oceanographic fleet's deep-sea cruises
Citation
Olu K, Cannat M, Arnaud-Haond S, Rabouille C, Lallier F, Blandin J, Cambon-Bonavita M, Justiniano J, Sarradin P, Fouquet Y, Fabri M, Gillet H, Soubigou O, Menot L, Cotten C (2025). Biological samples from the french oceanographic fleet's deep-sea cruises. Version 1.3. IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea. Samplingevent dataset. 10.15468/dl.ey5ub5. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/490
Contact:
Van Iseghem, Sylvie ;
Cotten, Clémence ;

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

Description
The Biocean database was designed to gather the extremely large volume of data collected from different deep-sea ecosystem studies conducted by Ifremer's department "Environnement Profond" and aims at facilitating ecosystem studies in the deep sea. It represents an important new resource for deep-sea ecologists and will have wide applications in biogeography, and biodiversity studies.
Description of biological samples collected during deep-sea campaigns operated by the French oceanographic fleet since 2011. These data are acquired by underwater devices during the campaigns and then stored by Ifremer's CNDO (Centre National de Donnees Oceanographiques) Sismer. These data are mainly located in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and around mainland France.
moreThe Biocean database was designed to gather the extremely large volume of data collected from different deep-sea ecosystem studies conducted by Ifremer's department "Environnement Profond" and aims at facilitating ecosystem studies in the deep sea. It represents an important new resource for deep-sea ecologists and will have wide applications in biogeography, and biodiversity studies.
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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Deep sea, Environment, Fauna, Geoscientific Information, Global, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, A, Mid-Atlantic Ridge, ANE, Azores, ANE, Biscay Bay, ANE, Celtic Sea, ASE, Guinea Gulf, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, World Waters, Animalia, Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Foraminifera, Kinorhyncha, Mollusca, Nematoda, Nemertina, Porifera
Geographical coverage
A, Mid-Atlantic Ridge [Marine Regions]
ANE, Azores [Marine Regions]
ANE, Biscay Bay [Marine Regions]
ANE, Celtic Sea [Marine Regions]
ASE, Guinea Gulf [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -153,5393; MinLat: -53 - MaxLong: 168; MaxLat: 77 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -153,5393; MinLat: -53 - MaxLong: 168; MaxLat: 77 [WGS84]
Mediterranean [Marine Regions]
World Waters [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1967 on [In Progress]
Unknown
Unknown
Taxonomic coverage
Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Contributors
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), more, data owner, data manager, data creator
Borremans, Catherine
Van Iseghem, Sylvie
Olu, Karine
Arnaud-Haond, Sophie
Fabri, Marie-Claire
Menot, Lénaïck
Blandin, Jérôme
Cambon-Bonavita, Marie-Anne
Sarradin, Pierre-Marie
Fouquet, Yves
Soubigou, Olivier
Cotten, Clémence
Van Iseghem, Sylvie
Olu, Karine
Arnaud-Haond, Sophie
Fabri, Marie-Claire
Menot, Lénaïck
Blandin, Jérôme
Cambon-Bonavita, Marie-Anne
Sarradin, Pierre-Marie
Fouquet, Yves
Soubigou, Olivier
Cotten, Clémence
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Perez Perez, Ruben
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), data creator
Cannat, Mathilde
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), dataset publisher
Rabouille, Christophe
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), data creator
Lallier, François
Justiniano, Jean-Paul
Université de Bordeaux, data creator
Gillet, Hervé
Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
Macroben: Macroben database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop)
Publication
Based on this dataset
Fabri, M.-C. et al. (2006). Combining the Biocean database for deep-sea benthic data with the online Ocean Biogeographic Information System Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 316: 215-224
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2004-12-24
Metadatarecord created: 2005-01-04
Information last updated: 2025-04-22