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Macrobenthos from English waters between 2000-2002
Citation
CEFAS. - UK (2015). Macrobenthos from English waters between 2000-2002. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1681
Contact: Rees, Hubert

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset contains macrobenthos data from English waters between 2000 and 2002. more

2-3 replicates were taken. Identification was done up to species level. Samples were taken by Hamon, Day or van Veen grab.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Macrobenthos, Zoobenthos, ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, UK

Geographical coverage
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -2; MinLat: 51,25 - MaxLong: 2,5; MaxLat: 56 [WGS84]
UK [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2000 - 2002

Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Description of grain-size kurtosis of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Kurtosos Vocabulary (SDN:GS6::) [BODC]
Description of grain-size skewness of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Skewness Vocabulary (SDN:GS5::) [BODC]
Description of lithology of sediment by visual estimation [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Grain-size kurtosis of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size mode of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size skewness of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Macrobenthos density Methodology
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (0-63um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (1000-2000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (2000-4000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (4000-8000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (500-1000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (8000-16000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Macrobenthos density: Van Veen

Contributors
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), moredata providerdata ownerdata creator
Rees, Hubert
Eggleton, Jacqueline
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
NSBP: North Sea Benthos Project


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2008-09-18
Information last updated: 2016-04-11
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