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Monitoring of macrozoobenthos in the Voordelta Citation Borst, J.C.;Stolte, W.; van der Kamp, P.; Rijkswaterstaat (RWS); Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V. (HbR); Deltares; Imares; (2014): Monitoring of macrozoobenthos in the Voordelta. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/4662 Contact: Stolte, Willem Availability: ![]() Notes: The data from 2004- 2007 are freely available. The remaining data will be freely available after an embargo period Description Port of Rotterdam is carrying out the Project Mainport Development Rotterdam, PMR, expanding the port with 1,000 hectares through suppletion of sand in the shallow coastal Voordelta area in the North Sea. As the Voordelta has the status of protected nature reserve (Natura2000 area), the loss of habitat, caused by the expansion of the port, must be compensated for. As part of the compensating measures, the Dutch national government established a series of protected areas in the Voordelta region and is following the effects of these measures.
This dataset contains abundances of macrobenthis in the “Voordelta”. The set exists of a pre-protected status data (2003 – 2007) and a post-protected status (currently still under embargo). 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 Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Protected sites, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Netherlands, Voordelta, EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage ANE, Netherlands, Voordelta [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 3,37; MinLat: 51,5469 - MaxLong: 4,0473; MaxLat: 52,0046 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 2004 - 2011 Parameters Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] Ash-free dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] Benthos abundance Benthos biomass Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] Contributors Deltares, more, data creator Wageningen University and Research Centre; Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies (IMARES), more, data creator Havenbedrijf Rotterdam N.V. (GHR), more, data creator, sponsor Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat; Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), more, data creator Related datasets URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Release date: 2016-04-20 Metadatarecord created: 2014-10-22 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 |