Historic data (1908-1963) of benthic macrofauna from the Limfjord, Denmark
Citation
National Institute of Aquatic Resources (Aqua) - DTU, Denmark; International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Denmark (2016): Historic data (1908-1963) of benthic macrofauna from the Limfjord, Denmark. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/5100
Contact:
Jensen, Jørgen Nørrevang Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This historic benthic macrofauna dataset was digitized and standardized by ICES iin the framework of the EMODNet Biology project. It contains data from the Danish Biological Station who collected quantitative samples of the benthic macrofauna on a yearly basis from a range of stations in the Limjord during more than 5 decades. 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 · ANE, Denmark, Limfjorden · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Historical records · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Limfjorden Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 8,8979; MinLat: 56,7973 - MaxLong: 9,1734; MaxLat: 56,9953 [WGS84] Limfjorden [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
1908 - 1963 Yearly 5 January 1909 - 4 July 1960 (EurOBIS harvested data) Parameters
Benthos abundance Methodology
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Benthos abundance: Petersen grab Contributors
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2016-06-02
Metadatarecord created: 2015-09-09
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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