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De Beers Marine Namibia Benthic Monitoring Programme
Citation
Steffani, N; Pulfrich, A. (2013). De Beers Marine Namibia Benthic Monitoring Programme. Dataset published by AfrOBIS; consulted via iOBIS. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4750

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

Notes: De Beers Marine Namibia kindly allowed the data to be made public. The data are and remain property of De Beers Marine Namibia. The scientists involved in the collection of these datasets should be acknowledged, and a citation to the dataset (similar to the one suggested in this metadata record) should be included in any analysis or other work that makes substantial use of these data.

Description
De Beers Marine Namibia undertake marine diamond mining to depths of 130 m offshore of southern Namibia using remote mining tools. As part of their mining licence agreement with the Government of Namibia, De Beers Marine Namibia have undertaken a number of baseline and impact monitoring surveys with the view to quantitatively assessing the direct and indirect effects of deep-water marine mining on benthic macrofaunal communities, and to monitor post-mining recovery. Benthic grab samples were collected from both mined and unmined sites in 2005 - 2008 and 2011, using a Van Veen grab. Macrofauna was identified, and abundance and biomass determined. The data were made available to AfrOBIS as a series of Excel sheets. At AfrOBIS, the data were quality-controlled and transformed to comply with the Darwin Core/OBIS Schema. Funds for data operations were kindly provided by the Census of Marine Life International Cosmos Prize Fund, through a grant to Rutgers University.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, PSW, Namibia, Animalia

Geographical coverage
PSW, Namibia [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2005 - 2011

Taxonomic coverage
Animalia [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
Pisces Environmental Services (Pty) Ltd, moredata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
AfrOBIS: African Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-02-24
Information last updated: 2015-02-24
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