Zooplankton monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea between 2009 and 2010
Citable as data publication
Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Zooplankton monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea between 2009 and 2010. https://doi.org/10.14284/55
Contact:
Van Hoey, Gert Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
Zooplankton from the Belgian Part of the North Sea was sampled monthly in 2009 and 2010 at 10 monitoring stations, using a WP2 net (57cm, 200µm mesh size), which was towed in an oblique haul from bottom to surface. 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 > Plankton > Zooplankton Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zooplankton, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 2,29; MinLat: 51,16 - MaxLong: 3,23; MaxLat: 51,75 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
2009 - 2010 Parameters
Abundance Methodology
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC] Volume of sample from the water body [BODC] Abundance: Zooplankton WP2 net (ILVO) Zooplankton sampled by a WP2 net (57cm, 200µm mesh size), which was towed in an oblique haul from bottom to surface. Contributors
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Van Ginderdeuren, K. et al. (2014). The mesozooplankton community of the Belgian shelf (North Sea). J. Sea Res. 85: 48-58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2013.10.003, more
Van Ginderdeuren, K. (2013). Zooplankton and its role in North Sea food webs: Community structure and selective feeding by pelagic fish in Belgian marine waters = Zooplankton en diens rol in Noordzee voedselwebben: Gemeenschapsstructuur en selectief foerageergedrag door pelagische vissen in Belgische mariene wateren. PhD Thesis. Ghent University: Ghent. xx, 266 pp., more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2015-03-03
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-05
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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