MarBEF Data System

Meiofauna from Kongsfjord (Spitsbergen Arctic)

Citation

Urban-Malinga, B. (2001). Meiofauna from Kongsfjorden (Spitbergen, Arctic). Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology (IOPAS), Poland. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/693

Contact: Urban-Malinga, Basia

Access data

Archived data

Archived file:

Kongsfjord.xls

Kongsfjord_abiotic.xls

Availability:

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

Description

This dataset was compiled to describe the intertidal meiobenthic community of Kongsfjorden and to better understand the relationship between the horizontal and vertical distribution of meiofauna with a special focus on nematodes and environmental features

Scope

Themes:

Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Data, Horizontal distribution, Intertidal environment, Marine Genomics, Meiobenthos, Meiofauna, Vertical distribution, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, PNE, Norway, Spitsbergen, Nematoda

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 12,0336; MinLat: 78,8883 - MaxLong: 12,3975; MaxLat: 79,02 [WGS84]

PNE, Norway, Spitsbergen Stations [Marine Regions]

Kongsfjord

Taxonomic coverage

Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameters

Meiofauna density
Nematode density

Contributors

Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology (IOPAN), more, data owner, data creator

Urban-Malinga, Basia

Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia, more

Urban-Malinga, Basia

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

(Partly) included in:

MANUELA: MANUELA Database, more

Publication

Based on this dataset

Urban-Malinga, B.; Wiktor, J.; Jablónska, A.; Moens, T. (2005). Intertidal meiofauna of a high-latitude glacial Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard) with emphasis on the structure of free-living nematode communities. Polar Biol. 28(12): 940-950. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-005-0022-4, more

Dataset status: Completed

Data type: Data

Data origin: Research

Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-12

Information last updated: 2007-11-21

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