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Total diatom abundance in the Southern Bight of the North Sea in January and February 1971
Citable as data publication
Steyaert J.; Bouillon J.; Laboratoire d'Océanologie. ULB: Belgium; (2019): Total diatom abundance in the Southern Bight of the North Sea in January and February 1971. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/333
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Description
Counts of diatom cells for 7 stations in the Southern North Sea in January and February 1971.The data are digitized from technical reports in the frame of the 4DEMON project. more

Dataset on diatom densities for 7 stations (M1 - M7) in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Samples were taken between 23th of January and 05th of February 1971 using a Nansen bottle at different depths (0-25m). Additional information (count of living or dead cells) is given.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Diatoms, Phytoplankton, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Bacillariophyceae
Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 1,65; MinLat: 51,0889 - MaxLong: 3,4686; MaxLat: 51,4736 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
23 January 1971 - 5 February 1971
Taxonomic coverage
Bacillariophyceae [WoRMS]
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC]
Categorisation (as living or non-living) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Count of diatoms
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), more, data creator, data creator
Bouillon, Jean
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Projekt Zee - Phytoplankton of the Belgian part of the North Sea 1970-1976
Other relations:
Phytoplankton and environmental study in the Southern North Sea between 1971 and 1973, more
Primary production in the Southern Bight of the North Sea between 1971 and 1975
Total phytoplankton inventory in the Southern Bight of the North Sea between 1973 and 1974, more
Total phytoplankton inventory in the Southern Bight of the North Sea in 1971, more
Total phytoplankton inventory in the North Sea and the river Scheldt in 1972, more
Project
4DEMON: 4 Decades of Belgian Marine monitoring: uplifting historical data to today's needs
Publication
Based on this dataset
Steyaert, J. (1971). Premier niveau trophique - détermination de la quantité totale des diatomées au cours de la Campagne de janvier et février 1971, à bord du A962 Mechelen. Technical Reports I.C.W.B. - C.I.P.S., 1971/00:BIOL.(05). Laboratoire d'Océanologie. U.L.B.: Bruxelles. 8 pp.
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-23
Information last updated: 2019-02-12
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