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Analysis of macrobenthos in the Southern Bight of the North Sea (1971-1972) Citable as data publication Govaere J.; De Coninck L.A.P.; Coomans A.; Faculteit Wetenschappen. RUG: Belgium; (2016): Analysis of macrobenthos in the Southern Bight of the North Sea (1971-1972). https://doi.org/10.14284/208 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Species frequencies, density and biomass for macrobenthos sampled in the Southern Bight of the North Sea between May 1971 and September 1972 and sediment grain size data for all 60 sampling locations. Samples were taken using Van Veen grabs. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Govaere, J. (1978). Numerieke analyse van het makrobenthos in de Southern Bight (Noordzee). PhD Thesis. Rijksuniversiteit Gent: Gent. 220, 122 tab. [2 delen] pp. more The first part of the dataset contains species frequencies for all sampling stations during the sampling period. In the second part species are clustered in station groups and density and biomass was calculated for each species in the station group. In the last part species density observations are given for some sampling stations. Additionally grain size analysis was done for each sampling location. 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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Grain size analysis, Habitats and biotopes, Macrobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Numerical analysis, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Bivalvia, Cephalochordata, Crustacea, Echinoidea, Gastropoda, Mollusca, Oligochaeta, Phoronida, Polychaeta, Sipuncula, Stelleroidea Geographical coverage ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 1,6472; MinLat: 51,0889 - MaxLong: 4,55; MaxLat: 52,6083 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 24 May 1971 - 28 September 1972 Taxonomic coverage Parameters % Organic carbon (OC) Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC] Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC] Count Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Depth (spatial coordinate) relative to water surface in the water body [BODC] Gravel Macrobenthos biomass Macrobenthos density Proportion of particles (sand size-fraction) in sediment [BODC] Relative abundance Sand Silt-clay percentage Skewness Contributors Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Publication Based on this dataset Govaere, J. (1978). Numerieke analyse van het makrobenthos in de Southern Bight (Noordzee). PhD Thesis. Rijksuniversiteit Gent: Gent. 220, 122 tab. [2 delen] pp., more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Release date: 2020-05-18 Metadatarecord created: 2016-09-20 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
