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Meiofauna from Kongsfjord (Spitsbergen Arctic)
Citation
Urban-Malinga, B. (2001). Meiofauna from Kongsfjorden (Spitbergen, Arctic). Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oceanology (IOPAS), Poland. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/693
Contact: Urban-Malinga, Basia

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

Description
This dataset was compiled to describe the intertidal meiobenthic community of Kongsfjorden and to better understand the relationship between the horizontal and vertical distribution of meiofauna with a special focus on nematodes and environmental features

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Data, Horizontal distribution, Intertidal environment, Marine Genomics, Meiobenthos, Meiofauna, Vertical distribution, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, PNE, Norway, Spitsbergen, Nematoda

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 12,0336; MinLat: 78,8883 - MaxLong: 12,3975; MaxLat: 79,02 [WGS84]
PNE, Norway, Spitsbergen Stations [Marine Regions]
Kongsfjord

Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameters
Meiofauna density
Nematode density

Contributors
Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology (IOPAN), moredata ownerdata creator
Urban-Malinga, Basia
Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia
Urban-Malinga, Basia

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

Publication
Based on this dataset
Urban-Malinga, B.; Wiktor, J.; Jablónska, A.; Moens, T. (2005). Intertidal meiofauna of a high-latitude glacial Arctic fjord (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard) with emphasis on the structure of free-living nematode communities. Polar Biol. 28(12): 940-950. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-005-0022-4

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