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Macrobenthos and Phytoplankton monitoring in the Belgian coastal zone in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD)
Citation
Scory, S. (2019) Macrobenthos and Phytoplankton monitoring in the Belgian coastal zone in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/5945
Contact: Scory, Serge
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Phytoplankton biomonitoring of the Belgian continental zone performed in the light of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). The aim of this project is to develop a standardized method for routine phytoplankton monitoring of the Belgian coastal zone, by comparing and developing the best available techniques concerning preservation, identification and enumeration of marine phytoplankton samples, with special attention to Phaeocystis.
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 > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biological monitoring, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Coast, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Actinopterygii, Annelida, Arthropoda, Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta, Cnidaria, Cryptophyta, Dinophyceae, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Ochrophyta, Prymnesiophyceae
Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Coast [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,5537; MinLat: 51,1044 - MaxLong: 3,3499; MaxLat: 51,3763 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
2007 - 2009
Taxonomic coverage
Actinopterygii [WoRMS]
Annelida [WoRMS]
Arthropoda [WoRMS]
Chlorophyceae [WoRMS]
Chlorophyta [WoRMS]
Cnidaria [WoRMS]
Cryptophyta [WoRMS]
Dinophyceae [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Ochrophyta [WoRMS]
Prymnesiophyceae [WoRMS]
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC]
Ash-free dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC]
Contributors
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu; Beheerseenheid Mathematisch Model Noordzee en Schelde-estuarium (BMM), data manager
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Protistologie en Aquatische Ecologie (PAE), data creator
Scory, Serge
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
Marine phytoplankton community composition data from the Belgian part of the North Sea, 1968-2010
Presence/Absence maps of phytoplankton in the Greater North Sea
Project
4DEMON: 4 Decades of Belgian Marine monitoring: uplifting historical data to today's needs
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Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2019-05-07
Metadatarecord created: 2018-05-28
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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