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Intertidal rocky shore assemblages in Portugal
Citation
Sousa-Pinto I. & Araújo, R. (2003). Intertidal rocky shore assemblages in Portugal. Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigaçao Marinha e Ambiental (CIMAR), Portugal. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1663

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
Data were collected as part of the project "Distribution, use and conservation of the botanical heritage of the Northern Coast of Portugal: a sustainable development approach for a (future) ‘Natura 2000’ site". The general aim of the data collection was to quantitatively analyse the distribution patterns of intertidal organisms along horizontal and vertical gradients along the northwest coast of Portugal.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Macroalgae
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Algae, Biodiversity, Intertidal environment, Macrobenthos, Phytobenthos, Rocky shores, Zoobenthos, ANE, Portugal, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, Portugal [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -8,8717; MinLat: 41,2 - MaxLong: -8,2; MaxLat: 41,8431 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
2003
Not relevant

Parameter
% macro-algae coverage

Contributors
University of Porto; Centre for Marine and Environmental Research (CIMAR), moredata providerdata ownerdata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
LargeNet database, more

Publication
Describing this dataset
Araujo, R.; Bárbara, I.; Sousa-Pinto, I.; Quintino, V. (2005). Spatial variability of intertidal rocky shore assemblages in the northwest coast of Portugal. Est., Coast. and Shelf Sci. 64: 658-670, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2008-07-18
Information last updated: 2016-05-03
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