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Habitat suitability map of Limecola balthica community in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

The habitat suitability map (HSM) of the Limecola balthica community is a map describing the likelihood of presence of the Limecola balthica community from 0 to 100% across the Belgian Part of the North Sea. The Limecola balthica community is a macrobethic species assemblage characteristics of the area. The map is the visualization of a species distribution modelling exercise which consisted in modelling the likelihood of presence of the specific macrobenthic community based on the environmental parameters available. The modelling exercise was performed using a large dataset of macrobenthos samples.

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Date (Creation)
2022-04-04T10:54:59+02:00
Date (Revision)
2022-04-04T16:40:54+02:00
Date (Publication)
2025-12-03T16:08:25.997+01:00
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2683
Identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2683

Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details

This dataset is composed of the following sources: Silvia Paoletti, Steven Degraer (n.d.). Habitat suitability map Limecola balthica 0-100.

Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Author
  Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek - Visserij (ILVO)
Ankerstraat 1, 8400 Oostende ,
http://www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be/
Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Marine Ecology and Management (MARECO)
3e en 23e Linieregimentsplein, Block S, 1st floor, 8400 OOSTENDE, Belgium ,
https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/do/533
Theme
  • macrobenthos

  • habitat suitability modelling

  • Limecola balthica community

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3
  • benthos
Marine Regions
  • Belgian part of the North Sea
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Data is publicly available

Use limitation

Citation and reference to the report: Pecceu Ellen & Paoletti Silvia, Van Hoey Gert, Vanelslander Bart, Verlé Katrien, Degraer Steven, Van Lancker Vera, Hostens Kris, Polet Hans, 2021. Scientific background report in preparation of fisheries measures to protect the bottom integrity and the different habitats within the Belgian part of the North Sea. ILVO-Mededeling 277

Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
200.0  http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/ULAA/
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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gml32:beginPosition
1994-01-01
gml32:endPosition
2018-12-01
Reference system identifier
EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
  • application/xml ( Unknown )

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Name

application/xml

Version

Unknown

Transfer size
0.22797
OnLine resource
od_nature:habitat_suitability_map_limecola_balthica ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map

OnLine resource
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
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Dataset
Statement

The raw dataset consisted in macrobenthos samples collected between 1994 and 2018. The samples included species assemblages and environmental parameters that were classified in known communities by clustering analysis. The presence-absence dataset was used to develop an habitat suitability model with the method R-INLA SPDE. The habitat suitability model was used to project the probability of occurrence of the community over stacked environmental maps in R and QGIS.

File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2683 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-03T16:08:25.997+01:00
Metadata standard name

Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Point of contact
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
 
 

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Keywords

Limecola balthica community habitat suitability modelling macrobenthos
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3
benthos

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