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Polish Monitoring Programme - Monitoring of the Baltic Sea: zoobenthos

Citation

Polish Monitoring Programme - Monitoring of the Baltic Sea, Poland; (2016), PMS, IMWM Database: zoobenthos. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2467

Contact: Krzyminski, Wlodzimierz

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Zoobenthos data from Polish Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea collected in frame of the Polish Monitoring Programme. Data include information on species composition, abundance and biomass (wet and dry) of zoobenthos community for the period of 1979-2012.

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 · Benthos · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Long-term monitoring · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · Monitoring · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Zoobenthos · Southern Baltic

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 14,25; MinLat: 54,0667 - MaxLong: 19,7067; MaxLat: 55,555 [WGS84]

Southern Baltic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1979 - 2012
Yearly

15 August 1979 - 26 June 2013 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Benthos abundance
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Macrobenthos biomass
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]

Contributors

Institute of Meteorology and Water Management; Maritime Branch (IMWM MB), more, data manager, data owner, data creator

Krzyminski, Wlodzimierz

Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection, more, data owner, data creator

Related datasets

Parent dataset:

Polish Monitoring Programme - Monitoring of the Baltic Sea, more

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Source dataset:

Polish-Russian Vistula Lagoon Monitoring, more

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