Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the Water Framework Directive in the period 2007-2009
Citable as data publication
Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the Water Framework Directive in the period 2007-2009. https://doi.org/10.14284/52
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Van Hoey, Gert Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the Water Framework Directive more
Sampling took place in the Belgian coast, within the 1 nautical mile zone for a duration of 3 years in autumn at different locations with a Van Veen grab (0.1m²). 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 Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Indicators · Macrobenthos · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Belgian Coast · Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) Geographical coverage Belgian Coast [Marine Regions] Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 2,554; MinLat: 51,104 - MaxLong: 3,35; MaxLat: 51,38 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
8 October 2007 - 10 October 2008 (EurOBIS harvested data) 1 December 2007 - 31 December 2009 Parameters
Contributors
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Landbouw en Visserij; Instituut voor landbouw- , visserij en voedingsonderzoek; Kenniseenheid: Dier; Aquatisch Milieu en Kwaliteit; Biologisch milieuonderzoeksgroep, more, data creator
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Van Hoey, G. et al. (2010). Ecological status evaluation of the quality element macro-invertebrates for the Belgian coast (2007-2009). Report ILVO-Animal Sciences-Fisheries, 6. ILVO: Oostende. 65 pp., more
Van Hoey, G. et al. (2009). Macrobenthos monitoring at the Belgian coast in 2008, in accordance with the Water Framework Directive. ILVO: Belgium. 101 pp., more
Van Hoey, G. et al. (2008). Macrobenthos monitoring at the Belgian coast and the evaluation of the availability of reference data for the Water Framework Directive. ILVO: Belgium. 72 pp., more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2015-01-30
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-05
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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