Distribution data for benthic genera in the North Sea, covering a 22-year
timespan from 1990 to 2011. This data accompanies the manuscript “Capturing
threshold responses of marine benthos along gradients of natural and
anthropogenic change”, by E. Couce, G.H. Engelhard and M. Schratzberger,
Journal of Applied Ecology, in press. It was obtained from re-analysis of OBIS
benthic data supplemented with benthic survey data collected by Cefas in the
same period, with the study region partitioned into a 0.25° x 0.25° regular
grid.
