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Observations of three Idotea species (I. balthica, I. chelipes and I. granulosa) in Northern Europe, including the Baltic Sea - field data
Citable as data publication
Leidenberger, S. (2014). Observations of three Idotea species (I. balthica, I. chelipes and I. granulosa) in Northern Europe, including the Baltic Sea.- field data. https://doi.org/10.14284/8
Contact: Leidenberger, Sonja

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

Description
Observation data of occurrence of three Idotea species collected from own field sampling in Northern Europe. more

Marine isopods of the genus Idotea Fabricius 1798 are common meso-grazers of the benthos. Approximately 30 different species exist worldwide, including eight species in Europe. Only three species, namely Idotea balthica (Pallas, 1772), I. chelipes (Pallas, 1766) and I. granulosa Rathke, 1843, were able to colonize the brackish environment of the Baltic Sea. To understand the ecology and distribution patterns of these key species under on-going environmental changes, occurrence data were collected from museum collections and own sampling.

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 > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, Museum collections, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Baltic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Idotea Fabricius, 1798

Geographical coverage
ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 5,0796; MinLat: 40,8798 - MaxLong: 29,0846; MaxLat: 60,269 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
March 2004 - 26 September 2012

Taxonomic coverage
Idotea Fabricius, 1798 [WoRMS]

Contributors
University of Gothenburg; Faculty of Science; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciencesdata creator
Leidenberger, Sonja

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Observations of three Idotea species (I. balthica, I. chelipes and I. granulosa) in Northern Europe, including the Baltic Sea
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Publication
Based on this dataset
Leidenberger, S. et al. (2015). Mapping present and future potential distribution patterns for a meso-grazer guild in the Baltic Sea. J. Biogeogr. 42(2): 241–254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12395


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2014-09-09
Metadatarecord created: 2014-07-07
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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