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Plymouth sound dataset. Soft sediment macrobenthos from the Plymouth Sound from 1995
Citable as data publication
Kendall, M., S. Widdicombe, 1999: Plymouth sound dataset. Soft sediment macrobenthos from the Plymouth Sound from 1995. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK. https://doi.org/10.14284/297
Contact: Kendall, Mike

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

Description
The intended use of this dataset of the Plymouth Sound was the description of small-scale spatial patterns in soft sediment fauna. 44 stations were sampled for macrofauna around the British Isles during the period of July and August 1995

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Macrobenthos, ANE, British Isles, England, Plymouth Sound, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, England, Plymouth Sound [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -4,6667; MinLat: 50,3333 - MaxLong: -4,6667; MaxLat: 50,3333 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
July 1995 - August 1995

Parameters
Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Density

Contributors
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), moredata ownerdata creator
Kendall, Mike
Widdicombe, Steve
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Macroben: Macroben database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop)

Publication
Based on this dataset
Kendall, M.A.; Widdicombe, S. (1999). Small scale patterns in the structure of macrofaunal assemblages of shallow soft sediments. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 237: 127-140
Kendall, M.A. (1996). Are Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthic communities impoverished? Polar Biol. 16: 393-399

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2005-06-14
Information last updated: 2020-02-10
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