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Title
Hierarchical benthic habitat classification in the Atlantic Ocean - Level 2
Abstract

Classification of the Atlantic Ocean seabed into broad-scale benthic habitats employing a hierarchical top-down clustering approach aimed at informing Marine Spatial Planning. This work was performed at the University of Plymouth in 2021 with data provided by a wide group of partners representing the nations surrounding the Atlantic Ocean. It classifies continuous environmental data into discrete classes that can be compared to observed biogeographical patterns at various scales. It has 3 levels of classification. For ease of use, a layer is provided for each level. Level 1 has 4 classes. Level 2 has 15 classes nested within level 1. Layers indices are 2 digits (1[level1 class index]1[level 2 class index]). Level 3 has 157 classes nested within level 2 and class names have 4 digits (1digit[level1 class index]1[level 2 class index]2[level 3 class index]). Note that the classification was performed for the whole world and thus it has more classes than in the presented layer.

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Publication Date
April 27, 2023, 9:35 a.m.
Type
Raster Data
Keywords
Category
Biota
Flora and/or fauna in natural environment. Examples: wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sealife, wetlands, habitat.
Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
DOI
None
Attribution
None
Responsible

Name
Nils Piechaud (NPiechaud-355)
email
nils.piechaud@hi.no
Position
Postdoc
Organization
Havforskningsinstituttet - IMR
Location
Bergen NOR
Voice
None
Fax
None
Information

Identification Image
Spatial Extent
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Projection System
EPSG:4326
Extension x0
-66.00000000000003
Extension x1
29.6666666666666
Extension y0
-62.24999999999994
Extension y1
83.33333333333334
Features

Language
English
Temporal Extent
Jan. 1, 2016, midnight - Jan. 1, 2016, midnight
Data Quality

Sources used for clustering indicated in reference: GEBCO: https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/gebco_2020/ Bio-ORACLE v2: https://www.bio-oracle.org/  Yool (2022): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6513616

Supplemental Information

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Spatial Representation Type
grid data is used to represent geographic data
Contact Points

Name
Nils Piechaud (NPiechaud-355)
email
nils.piechaud@hi.no
Position
Postdoc
Organization
Havforskningsinstituttet - IMR
Location
Bergen NOR
Voice
None
Fax
None

References

Link Online
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Metadata Page
/layers/AAHA_Level2_allClasses:geonode:AAHA_Level2_allClasses/metadata_detail

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Metadata Author

Name
Nils Piechaud (NPiechaud-355)
email
nils.piechaud@hi.no
Position
Postdoc
Organization
Havforskningsinstituttet - IMR
Location
Bergen NOR
Voice
None
Fax
None