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Nematode biodiversity data from the North Sea Benthos Survey
Citation
Heip C. 1986: Nematodes from the NSBS. Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology, Netherlands. Metadata available at http://mda.nioo.knaw.nl/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=849. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/849
Contact: Vanaverbeke, Jan

Access data
Archived data

Archived file:
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
All nematode data from the North Sea Benthos Survey (NSBS) were compiled in a smaller dataset. more

The NSBS was carried out in 1986 as an activity of the Benthos Ecology Working Group of ICES. Benthic samples were taken in a standardised way, on a regular grid covering the whole of the North Sea, and analysed by scientists from 10 laboratories. Extensive work was done to standardise taxonomy and identifications across the different laboratories. A total of just over 1 000 species were reported from 235 stations. Most research however was focused on macrobenthos, while only limited research was done for meiobenthos.

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, Biological surveys, Biota, Data, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine Genomics, Meiobenthos, Meiofauna, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Nematoda, Nematode, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda

Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -2,5016; MinLat: 51,7492 - MaxLong: 7,9986; MaxLat: 57,9994 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1986
Not relevant

Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameters
Chlorophyll
Depth
Granulometric variables
Kurtosis (0.4-900 µm)
Salinity
Skewness (0.4-900 µm)
Sorting coefficient
Tidal stress
Water temperature
Wave stress

Contributors
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more
Vanaverbeke, Jan
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), moredata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database
Source dataset:
NSBS: North Sea Benthos Survey, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2009-03-10
Metadatarecord created: 2006-06-21
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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