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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
Availability:
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, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, research vessel, Sea regions, Submarine ridges, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Iceland
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -43,912; MinLat: 57,97 - MaxLong: -26,165; MaxLat: 65,037 [WGS84]
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
Unknown
Parameter
Presence of biota
Contributors
Marine Research Institute Iceland (MRI), more, data creator, data owner, data provider, executant
Sigurdsson, Thorsteinn
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
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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