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SHARK - Regional monitoring, recipient control and monitoring projects of zoobenthos in Sweden since 1972
Citation
Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities, Swedish coalitions of water conservation, Swedish companies and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute et.al.(2021). Regional monitoring, recipient control and monitoring projects of zoobenthos in Sweden since 1972. https://doi.org/10.15468/cesssx
Contact: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), more

Access data
Archived data
Availability: CC0 To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.

Description
Zoobenthos have been regionally monitored in Sweden since 1972. The monitoring is financed by the Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities, Swedish coalitions of water conservation and Swedish companies. Recipient control data financed by companies are also included. more

Monitoring is performed by Swedish universities, agencies and consulting firms. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The purpose of the monitoring program is to detect long term and short term changes in the soft bottom macrozoobenthos (>1mm) communities. Changes in the macrofauna community can indicate changes in environmental threats like eutrophication, environmental toxins and climate change. Data are collected and analyzed according to Leonardsson K., 2004. (In Swedish) Metodbeskrivning för provtagning och analys av mjukbottenlevande makroevertebrater i marin miljö. Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi och geovetenskap, 26 p (https://www.havochvatten.se/download/18.1690613b166605675de898f4/1539942622449/rapport-umu-metodbeskrivning-provtagning-analys-mjukbottenlevande-makroevertebrater-i-marin-miljo.pdf) or similar methods. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at https://www.havochvatten.se/download/18.2a9deb63158cebbd2b450dd5/1481269871386/mjukbottenmakrofaunatrendovervakningkustohav.pdf and https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/sediment---basundersokning.html Data are collected and analyzed according to Leonardsson K., 2004. (In Swedish) Metodbeskrivning för provtagning och analys av mjukbottenlevande makroevertebrater i marin miljö. Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi och geovetenskap, 26 p (https://www.havochvatten.se/download/18.1690613b166605675de898f4/1539942622449/rapport-umu-metodbeskrivning-provtagning-analys-mjukbottenlevande-makroevertebrater-i-marin-miljo.pdf) or similar methods.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos > Zoobenthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Ancylus [EurOBIS harvested data] · ANE, Baltic · ANE, Kattegat · ANE, Skagerrak · Aurelia [EurOBIS harvested data] · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Botnica [EurOBIS harvested data] · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Ocean Surveyor [EurOBIS harvested data] · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · ANE, Baltic Sea · Anthozoa · Asteroidea · Bivalvia · Caudofoveata · Clitellata · Echinoidea · Gastropoda · Holothuroidea · Hoplonemertea · Hydrozoa · Insecta · Malacostraca · Ophiuroidea · Ostracoda · Polychaeta

Geographical coverage
ANE, Baltic Sea [Marine Regions]
ANE, Kattegat [Marine Regions]
ANE, Skagerrak [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 11,4417; MinLat: 55,6049 - MaxLong: 24,2432; MaxLat: 65,757 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
From 19 December 1972 on [In Progress]
13 April 1987 - 31 May 2022 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage
Anthozoa [WoRMS]
Asteroidea [WoRMS]
Bivalvia [WoRMS]
Caudofoveata [WoRMS]
Clitellata [WoRMS]
Echinoidea [WoRMS]
Gastropoda [WoRMS]
Holothuroidea [WoRMS]
Hoplonemertea [WoRMS]
Hydrozoa [WoRMS]
Insecta [WoRMS]
Malacostraca [WoRMS]
Ophiuroidea [WoRMS]
Ostracoda [WoRMS]
Polychaeta [WoRMS]

Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Area of sample collector (aperture) {mouth area} [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Concentration of organic matter {total organic matter} per unit dry weight of sediment by gravimetric determination of loss on ignition [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Concentration of oxygen {O2 CAS 7782-44-7} per unit volume of the water body dissolved plus reactive particulate phase [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Description of lithology of sediment by visual estimation [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Practical salinity of the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Sea-floor depth (below instantaneous sea level) {bathymetric depth} in the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Speed of wind {wind speed} in the atmosphere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Temperature of the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Visibility in the water body by Secchi disk [BODC]
Volume of sample from the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Wave height mean of waves on the water body by visual estimation [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Wet weight biomass (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), moredata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2021-07-13
Metadatarecord created: 2021-04-29
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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