MarBEF Data System

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/id/dataset/630

Contact: Koukouras, Athanasios

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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

Scope

Themes:

Biology, Biology > Benthos

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Museum collections, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Aegean, MED, Ionian 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]

MED, Aegean [Marine Regions]

MED, Ionian Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1937 - 2000

Taxonomic coverage

Anthozoa [WoRMS]

Ascidiacea [WoRMS]

Crustacea [WoRMS]

Echinodermata [WoRMS]

Mollusca [WoRMS]

Porifera [WoRMS]

Contributors

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Department of Biology; Laboratory of Zoology, data owner

Koukouras, Athanasios

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

MedOBIS: Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

(Partly) included in:

Oslo database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop), more

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

Dataset status: Completed

Data type: Data

Data origin: Research

Metadatarecord created: 2005-11-23

Information last updated: 2022-08-09

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