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Benthic fauna in Estonian territorial waters 1993-2016
Citation
Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu (2019): Benthic fauna in Estonian territorial waters 1993-2016. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/6025
Contact: Podkuiko, Lara
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Description
Quantitative results of large invertebrates species/taxon biomass and abundance sampled during Estonian national monitoring in Estonian coastal sea, Baltic Sea. The samples are collected and treated in accordance with Manual for Marine Monitoring in the COMBINEprogramme of HELCOM.
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 > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Time series, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Baltic, Baltic Proper, ANE, Baltic, Finland Gulf, ANE, Baltic, Vainameri Archipelago, Hiiurnaa, ANE, Estonia, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Arachnida, Bivalvia, Clitellata, Crustacea, Gastropoda, Gymnolaemata, Hydrozoa, Insecta, Nemertea, Polychaeta, Priapulida
Geographical coverage
ANE, Baltic, Baltic Proper [Marine Regions]
ANE, Baltic, Finland Gulf [Marine Regions]
ANE, Baltic, Vainameri Archipelago, Hiiurnaa [Marine Regions]
ANE, Estonia [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 20,5333; MinLat: 57,6149 - MaxLong: 28,0126; MaxLat: 59,9167 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1993 - 2016
Taxonomic coverage
Arachnida [WoRMS]
Bivalvia [WoRMS]
Clitellata [WoRMS]
Crustacea [WoRMS]
Gastropoda [WoRMS]
Gymnolaemata [WoRMS]
Hydrozoa [WoRMS]
Insecta [WoRMS]
Nemertea [WoRMS]
Polychaeta [WoRMS]
Priapulida [WoRMS]
Parameters

Abundance
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Biomass
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Contributors
Tallinn University of Technology (TTU)
Podkuiko, Lara
University of Tartu; Estonian Marine Institute (EMI), data creator
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EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2019-04-01
Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-31
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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