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Aegean macrobenthic fauna
Citation
Koukouras A., 2000: Northern Aegean dataset. Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Department of Zoology and Zoological Museum, School of Biology, Greece. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/630
Contact: Koukouras, Athanasios
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
A museum collection of long term qualitative macrobenthic data was collected from the Aegean and Ionian Sea. A very extensive list of peer reviewed articles were derived from this dataset
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, Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · MED, Aegean · MED, Ionian Sea · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · Museum collections · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Aegean Sea · Ionian Sea · Anthozoa · Ascidiacea · Crustacea · Echinodermata · Mollusca · Porifera
Geographical coverage
Aegean Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 19,71; MinLat: 33,235 - MaxLong: 28,258; MaxLat: 40,953 [WGS84]
Ionian Sea [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1937 - 2000
Taxonomic coverage
Anthozoa [WoRMS]
Ascidiacea [WoRMS]
Crustacea [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Porifera [WoRMS]
Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Contributors
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Department of Biology; Laboratory of Zoology, more, data owner
Koukouras, Athanasios
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
MedOBIS: Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Oslo database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop), more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Simboura, N.; Zenetos, A. (2002). Benthic indicators to use in ecological quality classification of Mediterranean soft bottom marine ecosystems, including a new biotic index. Mediterr. Mar. Sci. 3(2): 77-111, more
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2014-11-17
Metadatarecord created: 2005-11-23
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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