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Spatial variation of the zooplankton community in the Belgian part of the North Sea on 18-19 April 1978
Citable as data publication
Bossicart M.; Laboratorium voor Ekologie en Systematiek. VUB: Belgium; (2016): Spatial variation of the zooplankton community in the Belgian part of the North Sea on 18-19 April 1978. https://doi.org/10.14284/268
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Description
Qualitative and quantitative composition and spatial distribution of the zooplankton community for 32 stations sampled on 18-19 April 1978 in the Belgian part of the North Sea.The data are digitized from technical reports in the frame of the 4DEMON project. more

Dataset contains data on densities (number of individuals per unit volume of the water) of the most abundant zooplankton taxa found on 32 stations during a 3-day sampling campaign on 17-18-19 April 1978 in the Belgian part of the North Sea. For each unique eventID individual copepoda species belonging to the orders Calanoida, Cyclopoida or Harpacticoida were identified and their individual density was noted. For each station environmental parameters such as salinity, temperature and chlorophyll a concentration were measured.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Composition, Distribution, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Acartia clausi Giesbrecht, 1889, Calanoida, Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770), Caligus Müller O.F., 1785, Centropages hamatus (Lilljeborg, 1853), Cirripedia, Cnidaria, Copepoda, Ctenophora, Ctenophora, Cyclopina littoralis (Brady, 1872), Cyclopoida, Decapoda, Echinodermata, Euterpe acutifrons (Dana, 1847), Gastropoda, Harpacticidae Dana, 1846, Isias clavipes Boeck, 1865, , Lanice Malmgren, 1866, Nematoda, Oikopleura Mertens, 1830, Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863), Polychaeta, Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865), Temora longicornis (Müller O.F., 1785)

Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,2833; MinLat: 51,1833 - MaxLong: 3,2833; MaxLat: 51,6333 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
18 April 1978 - 19 April 1978

Taxonomic coverage
Acartia clausi Giesbrecht, 1889 [WoRMS]
Calanoida [WoRMS]
Calanus finmarchicus (Gunnerus, 1770) [WoRMS]
Caligus Müller O.F., 1785 [WoRMS]
Centropages hamatus (Lilljeborg, 1853) [WoRMS]
Cirripedia [WoRMS]
Cnidaria [WoRMS]
Copepoda [WoRMS]
Ctenophora [WoRMS]
Ctenophora [WoRMS]
Cyclopina littoralis (Brady, 1872) [WoRMS]
Cyclopoida [WoRMS]
Decapoda [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Euterpe acutifrons (Dana, 1847) [WoRMS]
Gastropoda [WoRMS]
Harpacticidae Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
Isias clavipes Boeck, 1865 [WoRMS]
Lamellibranchia
Lanice Malmgren, 1866 [WoRMS]
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Oikopleura Mertens, 1830 [WoRMS]
Paracalanus parvus (Claus, 1863) [WoRMS]
Polychaeta [WoRMS]
Pseudocalanus elongatus (Brady, 1865) [WoRMS]
Temora longicornis (Müller O.F., 1785) [WoRMS]

Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC]
Chlorophyll a
Density
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Salinity
Salinity of the water body [BODC]
Temperature
Temperature of the water body [BODC]
Zooplankton abundance

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL)data creator
Bossicart, M.

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
CRA - Biological datasets from the Belgian Part of the North Sea and estuaria 1977-1981
(Partly) included in:
Zooplankton data from Belgian research campaigns in the Southern North Sea (1902-1979)

Project
4DEMON: 4 Decades of Belgian Marine monitoring: uplifting historical data to today's needs

Publication
Based on this dataset
Bossicart, M. (1980). Etude du zooplancton en Mer du Nord. Croisière "Hétérogenéité spatiale" 17-18-19 avril 1978. Ekologie en Systematiek, V.U.B.: Brussel. 86 pp.

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-02-10
Information last updated: 2022-07-19
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