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Extent of loss of benthic habitat types dataset supporting the 2024 Belgian MSFD assessment of D6C4

This dataset is part of the 2024 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 6, criterion 4. This dataset describes and maps the areal extent of EUNIS level 2 broad-scale habitat types and gravel beds in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS), to assess whether the spatial extent of these habitats fluctuates beyond the accuracy margin of the current distribution maps.

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Date (Creation)
2025-02-13
Date (Revision)
2026-09-14
Date (Publication)
2026-09-15
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2928
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2928

Date

Other citation details
This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Vera Van Lancker, Frederic Franken, Lars Kint (n.d.). Areal extent of EUNIS level 2 habitats and gravel beds Report MSFD 2024. (2) Vera Van Lancker, Frederic Francken, Lars Kint (n.d.). Ratio hard substrate to soft sediment surfaces Report MSFD 2024. (3) Lars Kint (n.d.). Sediment dataset of box cores, hamon grabs and Van Veen samples.
Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Keywords
  • Oceanographic geographical features
  • Reporting INSPIRE
  • Federal government
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Oceanographic geographical features
European Legislation Identifier
  • Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
Marine Regions
  • Belgian part of the North Sea
  • Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
  • marine monitoring
  • Marine Strategy Framework Directive
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
  • Directive 2008/56/EC
NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0
  • Sea-floor integrity supports ecosystem
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
  • Environment
INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts
  • Oceanographic Geographical Features
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
  • National
High-value dataset categories
  • Earth observation and environment
Eionet Central Data Repository
  • (Criteria) D6C4 - Benthic habitat extent
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No conditions apply to access and use
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access.
Use limitation
No conditions apply to use.
Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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gml32:beginPosition
2020-01-01
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
  • text/csv ( 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
https://www.bmdc.be
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
1.528524
OnLine resource
Areal extent of EUNIS level 2 habitats and gravel beds Report MSFD 2024. Vera Van Lancker, Frederic Franken, Lars Kint ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

An HTTP link to view information

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
1.232273
OnLine resource
Ratio hard substrate to soft sediment surfaces Report MSFD 2024. Vera Van Lancker, Frederic Francken, Lars Kint ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

An HTTP link to view information

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Name
text/csv
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.608212
OnLine resource
Sediment dataset of box cores, hamon grabs and Van Veen samples. Lars Kint ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in CSV

OnLine resource
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
Yes
Statement
Assessed through acoustic remote sensing (multibeam bathymetry and backscatter) and ground-truthing (grab samples and visual observations), following a risk-based monitoring design along pre-defined transects and boxes since 2015, with full-coverage surveys in two selected gravel zones since 2014. Monitoring is coordinated by RBINS within the EU DG ENV technical group TG Seabed. Multibeam echosounder (bathymetry and backscatter); Van Veen grab/boxcorer ground-truth sampling. GIS-based spatial and backscatter classification analysis to delineate broad-scale habitat types and gravel beds.
File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2928 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-09-15T15:30:25.326Z
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
https://www.bmdc.be
 
 

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Keywords

Eionet Central Data Repository
(Criteria) D6C4 - Benthic habitat extent
European Legislation Identifier
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
Marine Strategy Framework Directive marine monitoring
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Oceanographic geographical features
High-value dataset categories
Earth observation and environment
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
Directive 2008/56/EC
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
National
INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts
Oceanographic Geographical Features
NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0
Sea-floor integrity supports ecosystem
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
Environment

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