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Nematodes of the Plymouth Sound
Citation
Somerfield, P.J. (1994). Nematodes of the Plymouth Sound. Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), UK. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/699
Contact: McEvoy, Andrea
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Description
Nematodes were collected using four different collection methods at two sites with contrasting sediment types. The aim was to assess differences between samplers by looking at the variation in nematode community structure.
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, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Meiobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sampling methods, Sea regions, Sediment samples, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, British Isles, England, Plymouth Sound, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda
Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, England, Plymouth Sound [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -4,2; MinLat: 50,3167 - MaxLong: -4,1475; MaxLat: 50,3347 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
June 1994
Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Parameter
Count of Nematoda
Contributors
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), more, data owner, data creator
McEvoy, Andrea
Somerfield, Paul
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database
Publication
Describing this dataset
Somerfield, P.J.; Clarke, K.R. (1997). A comparison of some methods commonly used for the collection of sublittoral sediments and their associated fauna. Mar. Environ. Res. 43(3): 145-156
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2009-03-10
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-17
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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