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The meiobenthos of the Southern Bight of the North Sea Citation Huotong, C. & Vincx, M. (1986). The meiobenthos of the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Ghent University, Department of Biology, Marine Biology Section (MARBIOL), Belgium. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/845 Contact: Vincx, Magda Availability: ![]() Description This dataset, compiled in the framework of a Msc thesis, contains information on the meiobenthic communities of six different stations in the Southern Bight of the North Sea, together with information on a number of environmental parameters. 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, Meiobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Gastrotricha, Halacaridae Murray, 1877, Harpacticoida, Hydrozoa, Mollusca, Nematoda, Oligochaeta, Ostracoda, Polychaeta, Tardigrada, Turbellaria Geographical coverage ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions] ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight Stations [Marine Regions] 701 Coordinates: Long: 3,1542; Lat: 52,3666 [WGS84] 110 Coordinates: Long: 2,5278; Lat: 51,1392 [WGS84] 753 Coordinates: Long: 2,6264; Lat: 51,2597 [WGS84] 751 Coordinates: Long: 2,6792; Lat: 51,3111 [WGS84] 435 Coordinates: Long: 2,295; Lat: 51,59 [WGS84] 800 Coordinates: Long: 2,8667; Lat: 51,8592 [WGS84] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 2,2936; MinLat: 51,1383 - MaxLong: 3,1528; MaxLat: 52,3659 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 12 March 1985 - 19 September 1986 Not relevant Taxonomic coverage Parameters Gravel Median grain size Median grain size sand fraction Silt-clay percentage Skewness (0.4-900 µm) Sorting coefficient Contributors Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more, data owner, data creator Related datasets Publication Based on this dataset Cheng, G. (1987). Study of the meiobenthos in the Southern Bight of the North Sea and its use in ecological monitoring. MSc Thesis. Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Zoologisch Instituut: Gent. 172 pp., more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research Release date: 2009-03-10 Metadatarecord created: 2006-06-20 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 |