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Phytoplankton in the western North Sea between 1976 and 1977
Citable as data publication
Vanlangendonck C.; Louis A.; Laboratorium van Algologie. KUL: Belgium; (2019): Phytoplankton in the western North Sea between 1976 and 1977. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/339
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Qualitative study on phytoplankton species found in the western North Sea between 1976 and 1977. The data were digitized from technical reports in the frame of the 4DEMON project. more

Dataset on phytoplankton densities (cells/L) for species found on 4 locations (Zone I - Zone IV) in the western North Sea during a 1-year study with a total of 24 sampling days between 21 October 1976 and 04 October 1977.
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 > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · ANE, North Sea · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Phytoplankton · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) · North Sea
Geographical coverage
Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,4028; MinLat: 51,2417 - MaxLong: 2,9111; MaxLat: 51,275 [WGS84]
North Sea Stations [Marine Regions]
Zone1
Coordinates: Long: 2,9111; Lat: 51,2417 [WGS84]
Zone2
Coordinates: Long: 2,7417; Lat: 51,2556 [WGS84]
Zone3
Coordinates: Long: 2,5972; Lat: 51,2681 [WGS84]
Zone4
Coordinates: Long: 2,4028; Lat: 51,275 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
21 October 1976 - 4 October 1977
Monthly
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC]
Density
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Phytoplankton abundance
Volume of sample [BODC]
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
KU Leuven (KULeuven), co-ordinator, data creator
Louis, A.
Vanlangendonck, C.
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical phytoplankton and environmental research data from the Laboratory for Hydrobiology, KULeuven, more
(Partly) included in:
Marine phytoplankton community composition data from the Belgian part of the North Sea, 1968-2010, more
Project
4DEMON: 4 Decades of Belgian Marine monitoring: uplifting historical data to today's needs, more
Funding BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
Grant agreement ID BR/121/A3/4DEMON
Publication
Based on this dataset
Vanlangendonck, C. (1978). Ekologische en algologische studie van bepaalde visgronden van de Noordzee-West: VII. Evolutie van de bijzonderste wiersoorten. MSc Thesis. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Faculteit Wetenschappen: Leuven. 160 pp., more
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2019-12-23
Metadatarecord created: 2015-02-25
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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