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Western Baltic Sea Copepods
Citation
Volkers, C. & George, K-H. (2002). Western Baltic Sea copepods. Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg; Deutsches Zentrum fur Marine Biodiversitätsforschung (DZMB), Germany. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/977

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Restricted
The data are withheld from general circulation and disclosure but access may be obtained on a case-by-case basis through negotiation

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Description
The main question in this research was how Harpacticoid copepod communities differ in species composition and diversity on a north to south gradient in the Western Baltic area and what factors might explain these differences

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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Biodiversity · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Meiobenthos · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · Species composition · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Western Baltic · Copepoda

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 10,6895; MinLat: 54,3333 - MaxLong: 12,6268; MaxLat: 56,1822 [WGS84]
Western Baltic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
28 October 2002 - 1 November 2002
29 October 2002 - 31 October 2002 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage
Copepoda [WoRMS]

Parameters
Copepoda count
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors
Senckenberg am Meer; German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), moredata ownerdata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database, more

Project
MarBEF: Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence, more
Grant agreement ID 505446

Publication
Based on this dataset
Folkers, C.; George, K.H. (2011). Community analysis of sublittoral Harpacticoida (Copepoda, Crustacea) in the western Baltic Sea. Hydrobiologia 666(1): 11-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-010-0210-2, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2011-09-05
Metadatarecord created: 2006-12-05
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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