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PANGAEA - Data from Benthic biology and geochemistry of a North-Eastern Atlantic Abyssal locality (BENGAL) Citation Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Multidisciplinary data of the abyssal benthic boundary layer in the northeast Atlantic. more The project was a three-year multidisciplinary study of the abyssal benthic boundary layer in the northeast Atlantic. The aim of BENGAL was to determine how the seabed community and the geochemistry of the sediments change seasonally in response to a highly seasonal input of organic matter from the overlying water column. It did this by organising an intensive sampling programme on 14 research cruises over a two-year period and using a range of observational techniques including time-series sediment traps, marine snow cameras, benthic lander systems, long-term moorings and time-lapse photography. The study area was located in the middle of the Porcupine Abyssal Plain at a water depth of about 4850 m, 270 km southwest of Ireland (central location: 48°50′N 16°30′W). The BENGAL project involved 17 partners from 9 European countries 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, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Macrobenthos, Meiobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, mooring, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Porcupine Abyssal Plain, EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage ANE, Porcupine Abyssal Plain [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -16,74; MinLat: 48,719 - MaxLong: -16,299; MaxLat: 49,019 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 1996 - 1998 Contributors Related datasets URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research Release date: 2011-01-05 Metadatarecord created: 2010-12-07 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
