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Danish benthic marine monitoring data from ODAM Citation Josefson, A.; Rytter, D.; Department of Bioscience - AU, Denmark; (2015): Danish benthic marine monitoring data from ODAM. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4494 Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Data contain abundance (number of individuals per species) and biomass (wet weight or dry weight per species) information. more Investigations of benthic macrofauna, in particular from soft sediments, have a long tradition, with the first quantitative studies in Scandinavian waters performed over 100 years ago. Benthic macrofauna is important as food for demersal fish, the cycling of organic matter and also play a role in carbon sequestration, and not the least as an indicator of environmental quality. Benthic macrofauna is normally defined as organisms retained on 1 mm (European standard) or 0.5 mm sieves. It includes invertebrates over a wide size spectrum; from large crustaceans like Norway Lobster and large bivalves like the Ocean Quahog, to small worms like polychaetes and oligochaetes. Benthic macrofauna also forms a substantial part of marine biodiversity, with more than 500 species in the soft sediments of Kattegat and the Danish estuaries. The typical data format is species specific abundance (number of individuals per species) and biomass (wet weight or dry weight per species) information and the sampling area are either 1/70 m-2 (0,0143 cm2) or 1/10 m-2 (10.000 cm2) Scope Themes: Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Long-term monitoring, ANE, Baltic, ANE, Belt Sea, ANE, Danish Exclusive Economic Zone, ANE, Kattegat, ANE, Skagerrak, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Animalia, Annelida, Arthropoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Echiura, Foraminifera, Hemichordata, Mollusca, Nematoda, , Phoronida, Platyhelminthes, Porifera, Priapulida, Sipuncula Geographical coverage ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions] ANE, Belt Sea [Marine Regions] ANE, Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions] ANE, Kattegat [Marine Regions] ANE, Skagerrak [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 3,33; MinLat: 54,4994 - MaxLong: 15,42; MaxLat: 57,7979 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 17 May 1911 - 3 May 2024 Taxonomic coverage Animalia [WoRMS] Annelida [WoRMS] Arthropoda [WoRMS] Bryozoa [WoRMS] Chaetognatha [WoRMS] Chordata [WoRMS] Cnidaria [WoRMS] Echinodermata [WoRMS] Echiura [WoRMS] Foraminifera [WoRMS] Hemichordata [WoRMS] Mollusca [WoRMS] Nematoda [WoRMS] [WoRMS] Phoronida [WoRMS] Platyhelminthes [WoRMS] Porifera [WoRMS] Priapulida [WoRMS] Sipuncula [WoRMS] Parameters Contributors University of Aarhus; Faculty of Technical Sciences; Department of Ecoscience, more, data provider University of Aarhus; Department of Bioscience (BIOS), more, data creator The Danish Ministry of the Environment; Danish Forest and Nature Agency, more The Danish Ministry of the Environment; Environment Centre Roskilde, more Related datasets Parent dataset: ODAM: Danish national database for marine data, more Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more (Partly) included in: Distribution of benthic macroinvertebrate living modes in European seas, more Gridded abundance map of the invasive Polychaete Marenzelleria in the Baltic Sea, more Previous version: MADS - Marine benthic soft-sediment macrozoobenthos, more Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-08 Information last updated: 2024-09-16 | ||||
