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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://doi.org/10.15468/dl.ey5ub5
Contact:
Van Iseghem, Sylvie ;
Cotten, Clémence ;
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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 · A, Mid-Atlantic Ridge · ANE, Biscay Bay · ANE, Celtic Sea · ASE, Guinea Gulf · Azores · Benthos · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Deep sea · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Fauna · Geoscientific Information · Global · Habitats and biotopes · MED · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · World Waters · XYZ ASCII · Bay of Biscay · Celtic Sea · Gulf of Guinea · Mediterranean Sea · Mid-Atlantic Ridge · World Oceans · Animalia · Annelida · Arthropoda · Brachiopoda · Bryozoa · Chaetognatha · Chordata · Cnidaria · Echinodermata · Foraminifera · Kinorhyncha · Mollusca · Nematoda · Nemertina · Porifera
Geographical coverage
Azores [Marine Regions]
Bay of Biscay [Marine Regions]
Celtic Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -153,5393; MinLat: -37,7453 - MaxLong: 9,9496; MaxLat: 55,5267 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -153,5393; MinLat: -37,7453 - MaxLong: 9,9496; MaxLat: 55,5267 [WGS84]
Gulf of Guinea [Marine Regions]
Mediterranean Sea [Marine Regions]
Mid-Atlantic Ridge [Marine Regions]
World Oceans [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
From 1967 on [In Progress]
Unknown
Unknown
2 February 2011 - 26 August 2023 (EurOBIS harvested data)
Taxonomic coverage
Parameters
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
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, data manager
Perez Perez, Ruben
Institute of Earth Physics of Paris (IPGP), data creator
Cannat, Mathilde
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), more, dataset publisher
Rabouille, Christophe
Sorbonne Université; Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), more, 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, more
(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: 2026-02-26
