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MAR-ECO 2003 - Arni Fridriksson
Citation
Hafsteinn G. Gudfinnson, Høgni Debes, Tone Falkenhaug, Eilif Gaard, Ástthor Gislason, Hildur Petursdottir, Thorsteinn Sigurdsson, and Hedinn Valdimarsson. 2008. Abundance and productivity of the pelagic ecosystem along a transect across the northern Mid- Atlantic Ridge in June 2003. ICES CM 2008/C:12. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2429
Contact: Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn

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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
MAR-ECO (2003 - 2010)was an international exploratory study of the animals inhabiting the northern mid-Atlantic. Scientists from 16 nations around the northern Atlantic Ocean participated in research of the waters around the mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland to the Azores. This data set is subset of the data collected, and comprises presence/absence records for zooplankton and nekton, collected in 2003 on R/V Arni Fridriksson. Contact person Thorsteinn Sigurdsson, Marine Research Institute, Iceland, e-mail: steini@hafro.is

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 > Nekton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Arni Fridriksson, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Iceland, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, research vessel, Sea regions, Submarine ridges, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -43,912; MinLat: 57,97 - MaxLong: -26,165; MaxLat: 65,037 [WGS84]
Iceland [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
5 July 2003 - 29 July 2003
Unknown

Parameter
Presence of biota

Contributors
Marine Research Institute Iceland (MRI), moredata creatordata ownerdata providerexecutant
Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn

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Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: experiment
Release date: 2010-04-28
Metadatarecord created: 2010-04-29
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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