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Monitoring of macrozoobenthos in the Voordelta
Citation
Borst, J.C.;Stolte, W.; van der Kamp, P.; Rijkswaterstaat (RWS); Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V. (HbR); Deltares; Imares; (2014): Monitoring of macrozoobenthos in the Voordelta. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4662

Access data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Notes: The data from 2004- 2007 are freely available. The remaining data will be freely available after an embargo period

Description
Port of Rotterdam is carrying out the Project Mainport Development Rotterdam, PMR, expanding the port with 1,000 hectares through suppletion of sand in the shallow coastal Voordelta area in the North Sea. As the Voordelta has the status of protected nature reserve (Natura2000 area), the loss of habitat, caused by the expansion of the port, must be compensated for. As part of the compensating measures, the Dutch national government established a series of protected areas in the Voordelta region and is following the effects of these measures. This dataset contains abundances of macrobenthis in the “Voordelta”. The set exists of a pre-protected status data (2003 – 2007) and a post-protected status (currently still under embargo).

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Protected sites, ANE, Netherlands, Voordelta, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, Netherlands, Voordelta [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 3,37; MinLat: 51,5469 - MaxLong: 4,0473; MaxLat: 52,0046 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
2004 - 2011

Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Ash-free dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Benthos abundance
Benthos biomass
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]

Contributors
Deltares, moredata creator
Wageningen University and Research Centre; Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), moredata creator
Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V. (GHR), moredata creatorsponsor
Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat; Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), moredata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Monitoring of macrozoobenthos, fish and birds in the Voordelta, more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2014-10-22
Information last updated: 2022-08-01
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