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Benthos Cretan Continental Shelf
Citation
Dounas C., 1988: Benthos Cretan Continental Shelf. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/598
Contact: Faulwetter, Sarah
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
This dataset is part of a national project on the consequences of the Navarino Oil spill, in 1994 at the Gialova Lagoon, Ionian Sea. The Cretan coasts were studied from May 1987, in order to assess the level of their environmental degradation due to touristic and other anthropogenic activities
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, Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthic fauna, Bio-geographical regions, Biogeography, Biota, Data, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine Genomics, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Crete Sea
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 24,1556; MinLat: 35 - MaxLong: 26,1639; MaxLat: 35,4917 [WGS84]
MED, Crete Sea [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1988
Parameters

Density Methodology
Silicon (Si)
Total organic carbon (TOC)
Density: Smith McIntyre Grab
Sampling surface of the grab: 0.1 m2
Contributors
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), more
Faulwetter, Sarah
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture (IMBCC), data creator, data owner
Dounas, Costas
Related datasets
Published in:
MedOBIS: Mediterranean Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Macroben: Macroben database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop)
Project
MarBEF: Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence
Publication
Based on this dataset
Karakassis, I.; Eleftheriou, A. (1998). The continental shelf of Crete: the benthic environment. Mar. Ecol. (Berl.) 19(4): 263-277
Karakassis, I.; Eleftheriou, A. (1997). The continental shelf of Crete: structure of macrobenthic communities. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 160: 185-196
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2014-09-03
Metadatarecord created: 2005-09-27
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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