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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/doc/dataset/693
Contact:
Urban-Malinga, Basia
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International 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
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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Data, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Horizontal distribution, Intertidal environment, Marine Genomics, Meiobenthos, Meiofauna, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Vertical distribution, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, 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]
Coordinates: MinLong: 12,0336; MinLat: 78,8883 - MaxLong: 12,3975; MaxLat: 79,02 [WGS84]
Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Parameters
Meiofauna density
Nematode density
Nematode density
Contributors
Polish Academy of Sciences; Institute of Oceanology (IOPAN), more, data owner, data creator
Urban-Malinga, Basia
Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia
Urban-Malinga, Basia
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(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
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Dataset information:
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2009-03-10
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-12
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
