Demersal fisheries are a major contributor to global food supply, but also significantly affect marine ecosystem functioning. Physical contact of fishing gear with the seabed induces many changes to the sediment, including a direct mortality of benthic organisms (Sciberras et al. 2018). Understandin...

Romanian Black Sea phytoplankton dataset © CC-BY-NC

Marine biodiversity data comes from many sources and uses different standards, making interoperability and integration an ongoing challenge. The increasing need for semantic interoperability and data integration in marine research and biodiversity studies has led to greater use of semantic web stand...

EMODnet’s Biology experts, in collaboration with MedOBIS, have advanced open data and actionable information on seafloor (benthic) biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea. The dataset and related publication focus on “Bathymetric distribution and temporal trends of macrobenthic communities of the ...