European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

[ report an error in this record ] Print this page

Macrobenthos monitoring in function of dredge disposal monitoring in the Belgian part of the North Sea
Citable as data publication
Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of dredge disposal monitoring in the Belgian part of the North Sea. https://doi.org/10.14284/200
Contact: Van Hoey, Gert

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

Description
Macrobenthos monitoring in function of the disposal of dredged material. more

Sampling area: The five dumping locations along the Belgian coast Sampling frequency: Autumn-spring sampling before 2010, afterwards only autumn sampling. Since 2012, dumping site Nieuwpoort and Oostende were only samples once over a three year period, the other sites yearly.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Dredging, Macrobenthos, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,716; MinLat: 51,241 - MaxLong: 3,278; MaxLat: 51,472 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
From 2004 on [In Progress]

Parameters
Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]

Contributors
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Landbouw en Visserij; Instituut voor landbouw- , visserij en voedingsonderzoek; Kenniseenheid: Dier; Aquatisch Milieu en Kwaliteit
Van Hoey, Gert
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Landbouw en Visserij; Instituut voor landbouw- , visserij en voedingsonderzoek; Kenniseenheid: Dier; Aquatisch Milieu en Kwaliteit; Biologisch milieuonderzoeksgroepdata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
ILVO macrobenthos in soft sediments: macrobenthos monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea since 1979
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
De Backer, A. et al. (2014). Similar diversity-disturbance responses to different physical impacts: Three cases of small-scale biodiversity increase in the Belgian part of the North Sea. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 84(1-2): 251–262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2014.05.006

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-05
Information last updated: 2019-11-20
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy