MarBEF

Macrobenthos from English waters between 2000-2002

Citation

CEFAS. - UK (2015). Macrobenthos from English waters between 2000-2002. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1681

Contact: Rees, Hubert

Access data

Archived data

Archived file:

Rees.zip

Availability:

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

Description

This dataset contains macrobenthos data from English waters between 2000 and 2002. more

2-3 replicates were taken. Identification was done up to species level. Samples were taken by Hamon, Day or van Veen grab.

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 > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Macrobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zoobenthos, ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, UK

Geographical coverage

ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -2; MinLat: 51,25 - MaxLong: 2,5; MaxLat: 56 [WGS84]

UK [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

2000 - 2002

Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Description of grain-size kurtosis of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Kurtosos Vocabulary (SDN:GS6::) [BODC]
Description of grain-size skewness of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Skewness Vocabulary (SDN:GS5::) [BODC]
Description of lithology of sediment by visual estimation [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Grain-size kurtosis of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size mode of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size skewness of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Macrobenthos density Methodology
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (0-63um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (1000-2000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (2000-4000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (4000-8000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (500-1000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (8000-16000um) in the sediment [BODC]

Macrobenthos density: Van Veen

Contributors

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), more, data provider, data owner, data creator

Rees, Hubert
Eggleton, Jacqueline

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

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), more, data manager

Perez Perez, Ruben

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

NSBP: North Sea Benthos Project, more

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