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Macrobenthos from English waters between 2000-2002
Citation
CEFAS. - UK (2015). Macrobenthos from English waters between 2000-2002. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1681
Contact: Rees, Hubert

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset contains macrobenthos data from English waters between 2000 and 2002. more

2-3 replicates were taken. Identification was done up to species level. Samples were taken by Hamon, Day or van Veen grab.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Macrobenthos, Zoobenthos, ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, UK

Geographical coverage
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -2; MinLat: 51,25 - MaxLong: 2,5; MaxLat: 56 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
2000 - 2002

Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Description of grain-size kurtosis of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Kurtosos Vocabulary (SDN:GS6::) [BODC]
Description of grain-size skewness of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Skewness Vocabulary (SDN:GS5::) [BODC]
Description of lithology of sediment by visual estimation [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Grain-size kurtosis of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size mode of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size skewness of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Macrobenthos density Methodology
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (0-63um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (1000-2000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (2000-4000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (4000-8000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (500-1000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (8000-16000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Macrobenthos density: Van Veen

Contributors
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), moredata providerdata ownerdata creator
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
NSBP: North Sea Benthos Project, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2008-09-18
Information last updated: 2016-04-11
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