Title

Intermediate Assessment 2017 - Seabed Litter - Relative number of litter items per square km

Date (Publication)

2017-01-01

Citation identifier

5785dea9-9404-498e-b12f-3de4402aa2e2

Abstract

Intermediate Assessment 2017 - Seabed Litter - Litter is widespread on the seafloor across the area assessed, with plastic being the predominant material encountered. In the areas assessed, higher amounts of litter are found in the Eastern Bay of Biscay, Southern Celtic Seas and English Channel relative to the north of the Greater North Sea and Celtic Seas.

Credit

OSPAR Commission

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
OSPAR		secretariat@ospar.org	Author
OSPAR			Publisher

Thèmes Sextant

• /Human Activities/Pollution

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Environmental monitoring facilities

Mission Atlantic - Resources

• Data

Mission Atlantic - Case Studies

• Celtic Seas

Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters

• /Environment/Pollution

Mission Atlantic - ODEMM

• /Pressures/Marine litter

Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)

• Spatial data products

Mission Atlantic - Work Package

• WP4 Benthic Mapping

Use limitation

CC0 (Creative Commons - Transfer into public domain)

Spatial representation type

Grid

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile	1.0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://odims.ospar.org/en/maps/ia2017-seabed-litter_items-per-square-km_5gmh9/	IA2017 Seabed Litter - Relative number of litter items per square km

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Metadata

File identifier

5785dea9-9404-498e-b12f-3de4402aa2e2

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-10-01T16:46:38.457Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Ifremer	Sextant	sextant@ifremer.fr	Local service desk