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Benthos Gironde Estuary
Citation
Bachelet, G., 2004: Benthos Gironde Estuary. Université Bordeaux 1, Station Marine d'Arcachon, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique, France. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/597
Contact: Bachelet, Guy

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

Description
The data is the integration of three different subdatasets i.e. the impact of dredging on benthic macrofauna (1979 data), comparison of macrobenthos between major European tidal estuaries (1991-92 data) and ecological monitoring of macrobenthos in an area affected by the effluents of a nuclear power plant (2004 data)

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthic fauna, Biogeography, Macrobenthos, Zoobenthos, ANE, Biscay Bay, ANE, France, Gironde Estuary, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, Biscay Bay [Marine Regions]
ANE, France, Gironde Estuary [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -1,4358; MinLat: 45,0603 - MaxLong: -0,6311; MaxLat: 45,6231 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1979
1991 - 1992
2004

Parameters
Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Density
Description of lithology of sediment by visual estimation [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Grain-size mean of particles in sediment by sieving and settling tube method [BODC]
Granulometric variables
Proportion of particles (<63um) in the sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Salinity of the water body [BODC]

Contributors
Université Bordeaux 1; Station Marine d'Arcachon; Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique (LOB), moredata ownerdata creator
Bachelet, Guy
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Perez Perez, Ruben

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Macroben: Macroben database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop)

Project
MarBEF: Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence

Publication
Based on this dataset
Bachelet, G. (1981). Données préliminaires sur l'organisation trophique d'un peuplement benthique marin, in: (1981). Vie Milieu (1980). Vie et milieu (1980), 31: pp. 205-213

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2005-09-27
Information last updated: 2024-07-08
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