Benthic fauna of the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park (SW Portugal) collected in August 2011
Citable as data publication
Tuaty-Guerra, M.; Gaudêncio, M.J. (2021). Benthic fauna of the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park (SW Portugal) collected in August 2011. https://doi.org/10.14284/464
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Tuaty-Guerra, Miriam ;
Marraccini, Alessandro Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
A macrozoobenthos species list is provided, based on datasets originated from infra and upper circalittoral samples (10 to 53 m depth) collected in the soft sediment bottom off Sines within the marine area of the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park (SW Portugal). Species composition and abundance per sampling station are provided. more
The dataset provides a species list originated from infra and upper circalittoral samples (10 to 53 m depth) collected in the soft sediment bottom off Sines within the marine area of the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park (SW Portugal), during one dedicated sampling survey in August 2011. Triplicate sediment samples were collected at each georeferenced sampling site with a Smith-McIntyre grab with a sampling area of 0.1 m2. In the laboratory the samples were analysed for species composition and abundance, and sediment grain size as well as organic matter content were determined for each sampling site. The work was carried out in the framework of the MeshAtlantic Project (Atlantic Area Trans-national Programme), aiming at classifying and mapping the benthic habitats and associated communities of the study area using the EUNIS system. 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, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Organic matter, Sea regions, Species composition, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Portugal, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Amphipoda, Bivalvia, Decapoda, Polychaeta Geographical coverage ANE, Portugal [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -8,8822; MinLat: 37,8318 - MaxLong: -8,7988; MaxLat: 37,9344 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
August 2011 Parameters
Concentration of total organic matter per unit dry weight of suspended particulate material [BODC] Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Grain-size median of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC] Occurrence of biota Proportion by dry weight of particles (210-250um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by dry weight of particles (50-63um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (<60um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (1000-2000um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (125-150um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (150-177um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (177-210um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (2000-4000um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (250-500um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (30.2-38um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (38-48.3um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (4000-8000um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (500-710um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (63-90um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (710-1000um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (8000-16000um) in the sediment [BODC] Proportion by weight or volume of particles (90-125um) in the sediment [BODC] Contributors
Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), more, data creator
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Monteiro, P. et al. (2013). Atlantic Area Eunis Habitats: Adding new habitat types from European Atlantic coast to the EUNIS Habitat Classification. MeshAtlantic Technical Report, 3/2013. MeshAtlantic, CCMAR-Universidade do Algarve: Faro. 72 pp., more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2018-04-16
Metadatarecord created: 2017-08-02
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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