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Aegean macrobenthic fauna
Citation
Koukouras A., 2000: Northern Aegean dataset. Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Department of Zoology and Zoological Museum, School of Biology, Greece. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/630
Contact:
Koukouras, Athanasios
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
A museum collection of long term qualitative macrobenthic data was collected from the Aegean and Ionian Sea. A very extensive list of peer reviewed articles were derived from this dataset
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, Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, MED, Aegean, MED, Ionian Sea, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, MED, Aegean Sea, Anthozoa, Ascidiacea, Crustacea, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Porifera
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 19,71; MinLat: 33,235 - MaxLong: 28,258; MaxLat: 40,953 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: 19,71; MinLat: 33,235 - MaxLong: 28,258; MaxLat: 40,953 [WGS84]
MED, Aegean Sea [Marine Regions]
MED, Ionian Sea [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1937 - 2000
Taxonomic coverage
Contributors
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Department of Biology; Laboratory of Zoology, more, data owner
Koukouras, Athanasios
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
MedOBIS: Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Oslo database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop)
Publication
Based on this dataset
Simboura, N.; Zenetos, A. (2002). Benthic indicators to use in ecological quality classification of Mediterranean soft bottom marine ecosystems, including a new biotic index. Mediterr. Mar. Sci. 3(2): 77-111
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Dataset information:
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2014-11-17
Metadatarecord created: 2005-11-23
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
