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ME-3f. Estuarine macrobenthos of the Schelde estuary (Belgium and The Netherlands) - 1988 onwards [ME-3f. Estuarien macrobentos van het Schelde-estuarium (België en Nederland) - Vanaf 1988]
Contact: Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (LNE-INBO), more

Availability: Restricted
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Description
These data are collected within the framework of different projects. They all have however the same aim: studying the factors determining the distribution of macrobenthic invertebrates in relation to the abiotic environment more

Other aims are assessing the potential impact of environmental changes; development of statistical tools to predict the occurrence of macrobenthos. Geographical area : several sites scattered over the Schelde estuary, including the polyhaline, mesohaline, oligohaline and freshwater tidal zone of the estuary (both subtidal and intertidal) Parameters : Abundance, biomass and population structure/dynamics of macrobenthic species and a characterisation of the abiotic environment (depth, sediment characteristics, salinity, etc.; at some locations also concentrations of pollutants)

Scope
Themes:
Coastal studies (e.g. shores, estuaries)
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Benthos, Macrobenthos, ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde, ANE, Scheldt Estuary, Belgium, Zeeschelde

Geographical coverage
ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde [Marine Regions]
ANE, Scheldt Estuary [Marine Regions]
Belgium, Zeeschelde [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1988 on [In Progress]

Parameters
Biomass
Density
Population composition
Salinity
Water depth

Contributors
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), moredata manager

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
ME-3 Monitoring the estuary along the Zeeschelde - macrobenthos, more

Publication
Used in this dataset
Ysebaert, T.J. (2000). Macrozoobenthos and waterbirds in the estuarine environment: spatio-temporal patterns at different scales = Macrozoöbenthos en watervogels in het Schelde-estuarium, ruimtelijke en temporele patronen. Mededelingen van het Instituut voor Natuurbehoud, 16. PhD Thesis. Universiteit Antwerpen: Antwerpen. ISBN 90-403-0125-5. 175 pp., more
Ysebaert, T.J. et al. (2000). The subtidal macrobenthos in the mesohaline part of the Schelde Estuary (Belgium): influenced by man? J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 80(4): 587-597. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002531540000240X, more
Ysebaert, T.J. et al. (2000). The subtidal macrobenthos in the mesohaline part of the Schelde Estuary (Belgium): influenced by man?, in: Ysebaert, T.J. Macrozoobenthos and waterbirds in the estuarine environment: spatio-temporal patterns at different scales = Macrozoöbenthos en watervogels in het Schelde-estuarium, ruimtelijke en temporele patronen. Mededelingen van het Instituut voor Natuurbehoud, 16: pp. 98-110, more
Ysebaert, T.J.; Meire, P. (1999). Macrobenthos of the Schelde estuary: predicting macrobenthic species responses in the estuarine environment: a statistical analysis of the Schelde estuary macrobenthos within the ECOFLAT project. Rapport Instituut voor Natuurbehoud, 1999(19). Institute of Nature Conservation/Instituut voor Natuurbehoud: Brussel. ISBN 90-403-0114-X. 40, 178, 8 pp., more
Ysebaert, T.J. et al. (1998). Zonation of intertidal macrobenthos in the estuaries of Schelde and Ems. Aquat. Ecol. 32(1): 53-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1009912103505, more
Ysebaert, T.J. et al. (1997). A first record of Marenzelleria viridis (Verril, 1873) (Polychaeta, Spionidae) in the Schelde estuary (Belgium) Biol. Jb. Dodonaea 64: 176-181, more
Ysebaert, T.J. et al. (1993). The benthic macrofauna along the estuarine gradient of the Schelde estuary. Neth. J. Aquat. Ecol. 27(2-4): 327-341. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02334796, more
Meire, P. et al. (1991). A comparison of the macrobenthic distribution and community structure between two estuaries in SW Netherlands, in: Elliott, M. et al. (Ed.) Estuaries and Coasts: Spatial and Temporal Intercomparisons. ECSA 19 Symposium, University of Caen, France. pp. 221-230, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2006-10-02
Information last updated: 2009-03-30
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