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FRB: Benthic communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence as surveyed in February 1962
Citation
Peer, D.L. (2016). FRB: Benthic communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence as surveyed in February 1962. Version 1 In OBIS Canada Digital Collections. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Published by OBIS, Digital http://www.iobis.org/. Accessed on –INSERT DATE. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5297
Contact: Kennedy, Mary

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Description
As part of the sediment water interface program of the Atlantic Oceanographic Group a study of the distribution and ecology of benthic organisms was initiated in 1961 and in February of 1962 van Veen grab samples were collected during the CHS Baffin cruise (Peer 1963). Species distribution information associated with this study were digitized, standardized and republished as part of the Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee (ACZISC) Atlantic Ecosystem Initiative (AEI) funded project “Atlantic Canada’s Biological Data for Ecosystem Planning and Decision-making” and OBIS Canada.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal

Contributors
Government of Canada; Department of Fisheries and Oceans; Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), moredata creator

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Published in:
OBIS-Canada: Canadian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2016-05-20
Information last updated: 2016-05-20
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