Observations of three Idotea species (I. balthica, I. chelipes and I. granulosa) in Northern Europe, including the Baltic Sea - data derived from museum collections
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Leidenberger, S. (2014). Observations of three Idotea species (I. balthica, I. chelipes and I. granulosa) in Northern Europe, including the Baltic Sea - data derived from museum collections. https://doi.org/10.14284/7
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Leidenberger, Sonja Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
Observation data of occurrence of three Idotea species collected from museum collections in Northern Europe. more
Marine isopods of the genus Idotea Fabricius 1798 are common meso-grazers of the benthos. Approximately 30 different species exist worldwide, including eight species in Europe. Only three species, namely Idotea balthica (Pallas, 1772), I. chelipes (Pallas, 1766) and I. granulosa Rathke, 1843, were able to colonize the brackish environment of the Baltic Sea. To understand the ecology and distribution patterns of these key species under on-going environmental changes, occurrence data were collected from museum collections and own sampling. 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 Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, A, North Atlantic, ANE, Baltic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Idotea Fabricius, 1798 Geographical coverage A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions] ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -70,788; MinLat: 38,1922 - MaxLong: 38,6129; MaxLat: 71,2088 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
1846 - 1985 Taxonomic coverage
Idotea Fabricius, 1798 [WoRMS]
Contributors
University of Gothenburg; Faculty of Science; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, more, data creator
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Leidenberger, S. et al. (2015). Mapping present and future potential distribution patterns for a meso-grazer guild in the Baltic Sea. J. Biogeogr. 42(2): 241–254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12395, more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Museum collection
Release date: 2014-09-09
Metadatarecord created: 2014-07-07
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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