Title

Network of Marine Stations And Observatories: Monitoring And Benthic Database For The French Mainland Coasts Since 1960

Date (Creation)

2007-01-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier

FR-DCSMM-PDS-RESOMAR_BENTHOS

Presentation form

Digital profile

Abstract

Resomar is a French national network of marine stations and observatories for exchanging and collaboration on scientific projects, studies and monitoring programmes. In 2007, the CNRS/INSU launched a programme with a view to giving new life to RESOMAR (formerly RNSM and then RNSLM), and to made it a strategic tool for enhancing coastal marine biology studies at a national level. This network has been given the task of scientifically collating and exploiting biological databased relating to the components of benthic and pelagic ecosystems on the French coast.

Purpose

The primary objective of the Benthos database is to bring together and to protect all benthic data present within the marine stations, and in particular historical data. The second aim is to use the information contained within this database on a national level by creating workgroups oriented toward specific ecological issues.

Credit

Data producers : Multi-organisation (CNRS, Universities, MNHN, etc.): Resomar stations and observatoires

Status

On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UMR EPOC 5805	Lavesque Nicolas	n.lavesque@epoc.u-bordeaux1.fr	Local service desk

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

Maintenance note

Network duration: perennial Network

Theme

• National network

• Resomar

• Biodiversity

• Coast

• Benthic habitats

• Soft substrate

• Hard substrate

• Macrofauna

• Quantitative

• Inventory

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Environmental monitoring facilities

Sous-regions marines

• /Métropole

• Bay of Biscay

• Channel-North Sea

• Western Mediterranean

• Celtic Seas

DCSMM : Type d'espace concerné

• Pas d'espace particulier concerné

DCSMM : Descripteurs

• D1: Biodiversity

• D2: Non-indigenous species

• D4: Marine Food Webs

• D6: Sea-floor Integrity

DCSMM : Méthodes de recueil des données

• Observation par point

Thèmes Sextant

• /Human Activities/Coastal monitoring networks

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other legal constraints

Confidential access

Use limitation

Charter of use of the Resomar data:

http://resomar-benthos.epoc.u-bordeaux1.fr/docs/Charte_RESOMAR.pdf

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

Français

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Supplemental Information

Project leader :

RESOMAR (CNRS-INSU) 2009

Prime contractor :

UMR EPOC 5805 + OASU 2009

CNRS-INSU 2009

Backer :

CNRS-INSU 2009

Reference system identifier

EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.9

Topology level

Geometry only

Geometric object type

Complex

Geometric object count

0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	http://www.epoc.u-bordeaux.fr/index.php?lang=fr&page=resomar	Bases de données biologiques de RESOMAR

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

1960 : First readings

February 2011 : Creation of the benthos database

2012 : Standardisation and validation of the database (quality assurance)

Number of observation or measurement points :6448

Description

Protocols (parameters, resolutions, frequencies) variable according to the programme see. http://littoral.aquitaine.fr/Bases-de-donnees-biologiques-de.html

Methods (grabs, dredgers, core samples, suction dredgers) and sampling programmes(spatial and/or temporal series variable according to the programme see http://littoral.aquitaine.fr/Bases-de-donnees-biologiques-de.html

Validation system : Technical and scientific validation ; taxonomic quality assurance, data validation and analysis

Description

Data type : Fauna, geology

Precision on the data type :

Fauna : benthic invertebrate macrofauna

Geology : sedimentology

Measured or observed parameters :

Specific compotistion, abundance, biomass, granulometry, organic matter content

Update frequency :

variable according to the programme

Observation frequency :

variable according to the programme

Description

Data stored in the database "Resomar-Benthos"

Description

Taxonomic repository: WoRMS

Description

Device associated : 100 devices son; links Resomar-pelagos; Resomar-SPI; SOMLIT; DCE-benthos; Rebent

Description

Sampling method : stratified

Metadata

File identifier

d2a8fe27-16b2-4e87-9668-f48c96766bf6

Metadata language

Français

Other language

Language	Character encoding
English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Series

Date stamp

2020-06-04T00:32:01

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

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