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Nematodes from the Exe Estuary (microcosm experiments)
Citation
Austen, M. & McEvoy, A. (1993). Nematodes from the Exe estuary (UK): microcosm experiments. Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), UK. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/712
Contact: McEvoy, Andrea

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

Description
This dataset is the result of a laboratory experiment to determine the response of benthic nematode communities to different pollutants in various doses and in two sediment types. The Lynher estuary is characterised by muddy sediments, whereas the Exe estuary is sandy.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Meiobenthos, ANE, British Isles, England, Devon, Exe Estuary, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda

Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, England, Devon, Exe Estuary [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -3,4272; MinLat: 50,6233 - MaxLong: -3,4272; MaxLat: 50,6233 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1992 - 1993

Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameter
Count of Nematoda

Contributors
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), moredata ownerdata creator
McEvoy, Andrea
Austen, Melanie
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database

Publication
Based on this dataset
Austen, M.C.; McEvoy, A.; Warwick, R.M. (1994). The specificity of meiobenthic community responses to different pollutants: results from microcosm experiments Mar. Pollut. Bull. 28(9): 557-563

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-18
Information last updated: 2011-01-31
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