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Eastern Channel dataset
Citation
Dewarumez J.-M. & Desroy N. - 2000. Eastern Channel dataset. Station Marine de Wimereux, France. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1779
Contact: Dewarumez, Jean-Marie
Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Notes: Release with permission of the appropriate parties
Description
Data comprised a regular grid extending into the English Channel, including UK waters. In total, 15 stations were sampled for macrobenthos.
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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Biodiversity, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Macrobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zoobenthos, ANE, English Channel, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
ANE, English Channel [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 0,9986; MinLat: 50,0019 - MaxLong: 2,4998; MaxLat: 51,5015 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
March 2002
Not relevant
Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Count
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]
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]
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]
Contributors
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille; Station Marine de Wimereux (INSU/CNRS), more, data owner, data manager, data creator
Dewarumez, Jean-Marie
Desroy, Nicolas
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Perez Perez, Ruben
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
NSBP: North Sea Benthos Project
Project
NSBP: North Sea Benthos Project
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2009-02-26
Metadatarecord created: 2008-11-20
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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