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Dutch long term monitoring of macrobenthos in the Dutch Continental Economical Zone of the North Sea, the Wadden Sea and the Southwestern Delta

Citation

https://waterinfo-extra.rws.nl/monitoring/biologie/bodemdieren/. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8823

Contact: van der Heijden, Luuk

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.

Description

Long term measurements of benthos composition in the Dutch national part of the North Sea, the Wadden Sea and the Southwestern Delta. Samples have been taken by benthic sledge, box-corer, video and Hamon sampler. Samples were taken annually between 1989-2024 and analysed to the genus or species level. For video sampling, coverage percentages were measured. The dataset has been used for assessment of the marine environment and habitat quality in the scope of the OSPAR Quality Status Reports and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

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 > Macrobenthos

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · Brackish water · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · INE · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · North Pacific Ocean

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,6778; MinLat: 51,3365 - MaxLong: 7,1488; MaxLat: 55,6333 [WGS84]

North Pacific Ocean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

3 September 1989 - 13 September 2024

3 September 1989 - 23 April 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors

Deltares, more, data creator

van der Heijden, Luuk

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