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Polish Monitoring Programme - Monitoring of the Baltic Sea: zoobenthos
Citation
Polish Monitoring Programme - Monitoring of the Baltic Sea, Poland; (2016), PMS, IMWM Database: zoobenthos. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2467
Contact: Krzyminski, Wlodzimierz
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Zoobenthos data from Polish Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea collected in frame of the Polish Monitoring Programme. Data include information on species composition, abundance and biomass (wet and dry) of zoobenthos community for the period of 1979-2012.
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 > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Long-term monitoring, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Monitoring, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zoobenthos, ANE, Southern Baltic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
ANE, Southern Baltic [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 14,25; MinLat: 54,0667 - MaxLong: 19,7067; MaxLat: 55,555 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1979 - 2012
Yearly
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Benthos abundance
Dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Macrobenthos biomass
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Contributors
Institute of Meteorology and Water Management; Maritime Branch (IMWM MB), data manager, data owner, data creator
Krzyminski, Wlodzimierz
Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection, data owner, data creator
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Polish Monitoring Programme - Monitoring of the Baltic Sea
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Source dataset:
Polish-Russian Vistula Lagoon Monitoring
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2016-06-10
Metadatarecord created: 2010-07-09
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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