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Nematode data from the Firth of Clyde (Scotland)
Citation
Lambshead, J. (1978). Nematode data from the Firth of Clyde (Scotland). Natural History Museum (NHM), UK. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/691
Contact: Lambshead, P John D

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

Description
The general aim of this dataset was to investigate aspects of the practical potential of nematodes as pollution monitoring organisms. To this end, six stations with different scales of contamination were sampled for nematodes and compared.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Meiobenthos, Meiofauna, Nematode, Pollution monitoring, ANE, British Isles, Scotland, Firth of Clyde, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda

Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, Scotland, Firth of Clyde Stations [Marine Regions]
Ettrick Bay
Scalpsie
Irvine
Prestwick
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -5,13; MinLat: 55,49 - MaxLong: -4,63; MaxLat: 55,84 [WGS84]

Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameter
Count of Nematoda

Contributors
Natural History Museum (NHM), moredata creatordata owner
Lambshead, P John D
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database

Publication
Describing this dataset
Lambshead, P.J.D. (1986). Sub-catastrophic sewage and industrial waste contamination as revealed by marine nematode faunal analysis. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 29: 247-260

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-12
Information last updated: 2007-11-21
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