Bathymetric distribution and temporal trends of macrobenthic communities of the continental shelf of Heraklion Bay (Crete-Greece)
Citation
Koumpaki E., Maidanou M., Chatzigeorgiou G., Rallis I., Mavraki D.,Dounas C. ,Arvanitidis C., Koulouri P. (2025). Bathymetric distribution and temporal trends of macrobenthic communities of the continental shelf of Heraklion Bay (Crete, Greece) . Version 1.0. Hellenic Center for Marine Research. Samplingevent dataset. http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=macrosoft&v=1.0. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8906
Contact:
Koulouri, Panayota Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset includes species composition and abundances of macrobenthic faunal communities along three transects of Heraklion Bay (H2, H5, H7). The H2 transect is located in the wider marine area of the wastewater treatment plant of Heraklion city. Sampling was carried out during three different sampling surveys and periods — June 2010, June 2015, and August 2024 — at different depths (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 and 200 m) along the soft-bottom continental shelf, as part of different research projects (MARBEFES, Marine Biology, Biotechnology & Aquaculture, monitoring program). A detailed comparison of species composition and abundance of macrobenthic faunal diversity among different depths and sampling periods is given, thus contributing to understanding the spatial and temporal trends and changes due to multiple environmental and human-induced stress. 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 > Macrobenthos Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bathymetric distribution · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Macrobenthos · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Regional · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Heraklion · Bivalvia · Gastropoda · Malacostraca · Polychaeta · Scaphopoda Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 25,1083; MinLat: 35,3388 - MaxLong: 25,3036; MaxLat: 35,4182 [WGS84] Heraklion [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From 18 June 2010 on [Completed] 18 June 2010 - 5 August 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data) From 16 June 2015 on [Completed] 3 August 2024 - 5 August 2024 Taxonomic coverage
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Contributors
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), more, data creator, principal investigator, data provider, data manager
Arvanitidis, Christos, data creator, principal investigator Dounas, Costas, data creator, principal investigator Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture (IMBCC), more, data manager
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Project
MARBEFES: MARine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning leading to Ecosystem Services, more
Funding Horizon Europe
Grant agreement ID 101060937
URLs
Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2025-08-05
Metadatarecord created: 2025-08-25
Information last updated: 2026-01-26
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