Marine bottom organisms in prospective marine protected area Froan-Sularevet, Norway

Occurrence Observation
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11 December 2025
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Description

Occurrences of marine bottom organisms at20–500 m depth in the Froan-Sularevet area outside Frøya in Trøndelag, Norway from 30August – 9 September 2025.The study area is in or near a proposed marine protected area:https://faktaark.naturbase.no/?id=VP00001512The data was collected by Akvaplan-niva during an underwater video survey of 18 transects with a remotelyoperated diving vessel (ROV).Taxonomic identification was done in the field, by an expert in vulnerable marine organisms, from high definition video from the ROV.Depth and position was obtained via the ROV's navigation software (EIVA NaviPac) and later corrected.When possible, each individual organism was identified and the number of organisms present in one second of video is reported in individualCount.Some organisms, were uncountable using visual inspection and are recorded as present with no individual count.These are coral <pre>Clavularia borealis</pre>, kelp species <pre>Laminaria hyperborea</pre>, <pre>Saccharina latissima</pre>, and stony corals.<pre>Desmophyllum pertusum</pre>, and <pre>Madrepora oculata</pre>.Taxonomy is validated against World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) using GBIF Species API.The final Darwin Core occurrence data is validated against GBIF data validator service prior to publishing.ContributionsJesper Hansen: principal investigator, taxonomic identification, initial data creation.Conrad Helgeland: data processor, Darwin Core, data validation, GBIF-publishing.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Geographic Coverage

Froan-Sularevet area, Trøndelag, Norway

Bounding Coordinates South West [63.876, 8.111], North East [64.202, 9.471]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Chromista, Animalia
Phylum Mollusca, Arthropoda, Porifera, Chordata, Ochrophyta, Cnidaria
Class Demospongiae, Hexacorallia, Phaeophyceae, Bivalvia, Octocorallia, Malacostraca, Teleostei
Order Scleractinia, Pectinida, Suberitida, Decapoda, Gadiformes, Polymastiida, Laminariales, Tetractinellida, Malacalcyonacea, Scleralcyonacea, Bubarida, Poecilosclerida, Axinellida, Tethyida, Haplosclerida, Dictyoceratida
Family Primnoidae, Capnellidae, Mycalidae, Coralliidae, Nephropidae, Halichondriidae, Bubaridae, Dictyonellidae, Stylocordylidae, Tethyidae, Madreporidae, Kophobelemnidae, Axinellidae, Dysideidae, Phloeodictyidae, Laminariaceae, Lotidae, Chalinidae, Theneidae, Caryophylliidae, Alcyoniidae, Tetillidae, Ancorinidae, Acanthogorgiidae, Isodictyidae, Funiculinidae, Polymastiidae, Pennatulidae, Protoptilidae, Pectinidae, Microcionidae, Virgulariidae, Clavulariidae, Geodiidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2025-08-30 / 2025-09-09

Project Data

No Description available

Title Marine protected area Froan - Sularevet
Identifier https://www.statsforvalteren.no/nb/Trondelag/Miljo-og-klima/Verneomrader/marin-verneplan/froan---sularevet/

The personnel involved in the project:

Jesper Hansen
  • Principal Investigator

Sampling Methods

Human video analysis transects surveyed by remotely operated diving vessel (ROV)

Study Extent 10 field days from 2025-08-30 to 2025-09-09.

Method step description:

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Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements
Purpose
Maintenance Description Only if errors are found.
Alternative Identifiers https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=froan-sularevet-2025