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IOW Macrozoobenthos monitoring Baltic Sea (1980-2005)
Citation
Zettler M. L., 2005: Macrozoobenthos baltic sea (1980-2005) as part of the IOW-Monitoring. Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde, Germany. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/601

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This time series on species composition and biomass or abundance of macrozoobenthos in the Belt Sea and the Baltic proper provide data from 1979 till 2005 as part of the HELCOM monitoring

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, Biodiversity, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Long-term monitoring, Macrobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Monitoring, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Time series, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zoobenthos, ANE, Baltic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 11,06; MinLat: 54,03 - MaxLong: 25,6; MaxLat: 59,92 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1980 - 2005

Parameters
Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Count
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]

Contributors
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde (IOW), moredata ownerdata creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
LargeNet database, more
Macroben: Macroben database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop), more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Zettler, M.L.; Schiedek, D.; Glockzin, M. (2008). Zoobenthos, in: Feistel, R. et al. (Ed.) State and evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005: a detailed 50-year survey of meteorology and climate, physics, chemistry, biology, and marine environment. pp. 517-541, more
Schiedek, D.; Zettler, M.L. (2007). Application of benthic indices to assess biodiversity in the southern Baltic Sea: What do they tell us about the ‘ecological status’ in a brackish water system? MarBEF Newsletter 6: 22-23, more
Zettler, M.L.; Schiedek, D.; Bobertz, B. (2007). Benthic biodiversity indices versus salinity gradient in the southern Baltic Sea. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 55(1-6): 258-270. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2006.08.024, more
Wasmund, N. et al. (2004). Biologische Zustandseinschätzung der Ostsee im Jahre 2004 = Assessment of the biological state of the Baltic Sea in 2004. Meereswissenschaftliche Berichte = Marine Scientific Reports, 60. Institut für Ostseeforschung: Warnemünde, Germany. 87 pp., more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2007-03-07
Metadatarecord created: 2005-09-27
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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