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De Beers Marine Benthic Monitoring Programme
Citation
Steffani, N; Pulfrich, A. (2013). De Beers Marine Benthic Monitoring Programme. Dataset published by AfrOBIS; consulted via iOBIS. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4749

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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 kindly allowed the data to be made public. The data are and remain property of De Beers Marine. 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 undertake offshore marine diamond mining to depths of 130 m on the South African west coast using remote mining tools. A baseline and impact monitoring programme was developed for operations in their ML3 licence area, 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 two mined and three unmined sites in 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, using a Van Veen grab. Macrofauna was identified, and abundance and biomass determined. The data were made available to SADCO as a series of Excel sheets. At SADCO, 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, South Africa, Animalia

Geographical coverage
PSW, South Africa [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2003 - 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 origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-02-24
Information last updated: 2015-06-22
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