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Macrobenthos monitoring in function of dredge disposal monitoring in the Belgian part of the North Sea Citable as data publication Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of dredge disposal monitoring in the Belgian part of the North Sea. https://doi.org/10.14284/200 Contact: Van Hoey, Gert Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the disposal of dredged material. more Sampling area: The five dumping locations along the Belgian coast Sampling frequency: Autumn-spring sampling before 2010, afterwards only autumn sampling. Since 2012, dumping site Nieuwpoort and Oostende were only samples once over a three year period, the other sites yearly. 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, Dredging, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Macrobenthos, 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), EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 2,716; MinLat: 51,241 - MaxLong: 3,278; MaxLat: 51,472 [WGS84] Temporal coverage From 2004 on [In Progress] Parameters Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC] Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] Contributors Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Landbouw en Visserij; Instituut voor landbouw- , visserij en voedingsonderzoek; Kenniseenheid: Dier; Aquatisch Milieu en Kwaliteit, more Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Landbouw en Visserij; Instituut voor landbouw- , visserij en voedingsonderzoek; Kenniseenheid: Dier; Aquatisch Milieu en Kwaliteit; Biologisch milieuonderzoeksgroep, more, data creator Related datasets Publication Based on this dataset De Backer, A. et al. (2014). Similar diversity-disturbance responses to different physical impacts: Three cases of small-scale biodiversity increase in the Belgian part of the North Sea. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 84(1-2): 251–262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.05.006, more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Release date: 2016-05-03 Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-05 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
