The dataset comprises: species records from benthic surveys commissioned by SNH or projects where SNH were a partner and the outputs are under the custodianship of SNH. Additionally species records determined from SNH analysis of third party commissioned benthic survey video footage are included. The dataset contains surveys which contributed to the Marine Nature Conservation Review (MNCR) programme, EU-funded BioMar Life project, SNH Site Condition Monitoring including broad scale surveys in support of the Natura process, surveys to establish the impact of specific activities on marine habitats and species and surveys to support the Scottish Marine Protected Areas project.

During the expeditions of the e-learning projects Expeditie Zeeleeuw and Planet Ocean, high school students come on board the research vessel and are introduced to the marine life of the Belgian part of the North Sea (BCP). Four days long, the water column and bottom of the BCP are sampled, respectively with beam trawl or otter trawl and a Van Veen grab. All samples are processed on board.

The macrozoobenthos of the Southern Black Sea coast (Turkey) was quantitatively investigated during May-July 1999.

This dataset contains data on marine species recorded in Ireland during field suveys by EcoServe, Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd.

Different dataset added toghether to make a common database for the workshop in Oslo and for the upcoming worskhop on Crete.

The Seabird 2000 dataset is a full census of all of the breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland. The data was gathered by over 1000 surveyors mainly between the years 1999 and 2003 from both coastal and inland colonies.

This dataset contains macrobenthos data from the French Sector of the North Sea from 2000. Dataset in the framework of the North Sea Benthos Project, which integrated recent (1999–2002) macrobenthic infaunal and environmental data from various national sources.

During the last 40 years of survey in the Lebanese seawaters and the Levantine Basin, we identified and described about 400 species, belonging to 85 genera, including 230 dinoflagellates and 156 diatoms, 10 Silicoflagellates and 4 Ebriidae, many of them are introduced or migrated from Red Sea and Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal pathway.

The marine biodiversity atlas of the Balearic Sea integrates marine information with relevant data of different taxonomic groups (from phytoplankton to big species) during a period of more than 40 years of research and surveys.

The aim of this data collection was to improve the knowledge on the occurrence of Echinoderms in the Adriatic Sea.