Description
As part of regular environmental monitoring, Equinor performs cold-water coral surveys on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS). Cold-water corals are key species in the marine environment that are known to form two important habitat types: coral reefs and coral gardens. On the NCS, the coral reefs are predominantly made up of the scleractinian coral Desmophyllum pertusum (formerly known as Lophelia pertusa), whereas the coral gardens consist of several soft coral species (gorgonians) grouped together. Both coral reefs and gardens are covered by Equinor’s surveys.
The coral surveys are performed using visual ROV inspection according to the Handbook of Species and Habitats of Environmental Concern (offshorenorge.no). The surveyed coral locations are provided as georeferenced polygons that may be plotted in any GIS application. For each surveyed location, the corals are evaluated based on coverage and health. For coral reefs, the approximate living area (m2) and living coral coverage (%) are reported along with a corresponding health classification (poor, fair, good or excellent). For coral gardens, the number of specimens per 25 m2 is reported along with a health classification equivalent to that of coral reefs. Note that both reefs and gardens often are present at the same location.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 339 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Mogstad A A, Nilssen I (2023): Equinor cold-water coral surveys on the Norwegian continental shelf. v1.1. Equinor. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=equinor-1&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Equinor. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a494949a-1df7-4983-b422-451ff5905052. Equinor publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Samplingevent
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
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- Point Of Contact
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2152-4746
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Equinor cold-water coral surveys on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [64.304, 6.404], North East [66.086, 8.25] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Cold-water corals
| Order | Alcyonacea |
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| Species | Desmophyllum pertusum |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2013-04-28 / 2022-05-27 |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | As part of Equinor's biodiversity position, we support the principle of sharing data from our impact assessments and environmental monitoring activities with the scientific community and the general public. We actively participate in a wide range of research programmes and industry partnerships to further build knowledge and develop innovative solutions to protect biodiversity. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | a494949a-1df7-4983-b422-451ff5905052 |
| https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=equinor-1 |