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Meiofauna from Lynher estuary in microcosms with contaminated sediment from the Fal estuary

Citation

Somerfield, P.J. & Austen, M. (1993). Meiofauna from Lynher estuary in microcosms with contaminated sediment from the Fal estuary. Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), UK. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/706

Contact: McEvoy, Andrea

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Archived data

Archived file:

Fal-experimental_706.XLS

Availability:

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

Description

Experimental data - sediment from Fal estuary (field-contaminated with heavy metals) seeded with meiofauna from Lynher estuary in microcosms more

A laboratory microcosm experiment was conducted to study the relationship between the nematode community structure and contaminated field sediments.

Scope

Themes:

Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Experimental research, Meiobenthos, ANE, British Isles, England, Cornwall, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda

Geographical coverage

ANE, British Isles, England, Cornwall [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -4,2445; MinLat: 50,3667 - MaxLong: -4,2445; MaxLat: 50,3667 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

November 1992

October 1993 - 1993

Taxonomic coverage

Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameter

Count of Nematoda

Contributors

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), more, data owner, data creator

McEvoy, Andrea
Somerfield, Paul
Austen, Melanie

Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

(Partly) included in:

MANUELA: MANUELA Database, more

Publication

Based on this dataset

Austen, M.C.; Somerfield, P.J. (1997). A community level sediment bioassay applied to an estuarine heavy metal gradient. Mar. Environ. Res. 43(4): 315-328, more

Dataset status: Completed

Data type: Data

Data origin: Research: experiment

Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-17

Information last updated: 2010-02-08

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