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Epibenthic fauna along the salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area in 1990 Citable as data publication Puturuhu L.; Vincx M.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME). VUB; Marine Biology Section, Zoology Institute. Ugent: Belgium; (2016): Epibenthic fauna along the salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area in 1990. https://doi.org/10.14284/222 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Overview of monthly epibenthic fauna in a marine and brackish zone along the salinity gradient of the Westerschelde in 1990. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Puturuhu, L. (1994). Density, biomass and feeding consumption of some demersal fish along salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area. MSc Thesis. RUG: Gent. IV, 44 pp. more The epibenthic fauna was collected with the R. V. 'Luctor' with a 3 metre beam trawl every month during 1990. Forty-five epibenthic species were found in the study area and dominated by brown shrimp Crangon crangon, lozano's goby Pomatoschistus lozanoi, sand goby P. minutus, dab Limanda limanda and shore crab Carcinus maenas. Scope Themes: Biology > Benthos, Biology > Fish Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Epibenthos, Salinity gradients, ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde, ANE, Scheldt Estuary, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758), Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758), Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758), Pomatoschistus lozanoi (de Buen, 1923), Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) Geographical coverage ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde [Marine Regions] ANE, Scheldt Estuary [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 3,5961; MinLat: 51,3583 - MaxLong: 4,2083; MaxLat: 51,4357 [WGS84] Temporal coverage January 1990 - December 1990 Monthly Taxonomic coverage Parameters Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC] Ash-free dry weight (AFDW) biomass Ash-free dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] Epibenthos density Methodology Epibenthos density: Beam Trawling Samples were taken from the R/V Shikmona using a 1.15 m wide beam trawl. Each "run" had a duration of 20 minutes and three "runs" were taken in each station. Contributors Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME), more, data creator Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more, data creator, data creator Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), more, data creator Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL), more, data creator Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Publication Based on this dataset Puturuhu, L. (1994). Density, biomass and feeding consumption of some demersal fish along salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area. MSc Thesis. RUG: Gent. IV, 44 pp., more Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2014-05-20 Information last updated: 2016-10-05 | ||||
