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Macrobenthos monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea from 2001 on
Citable as data publication
Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea from 2001 on. https://doi.org/10.14284/202
Contact: Van Hoey, Gert
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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 part of the long term monitoring program of ILVO at some fixed locations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. This dataset contains the data of 2001 to 2012. This dataset will be updated with the flow of the ongoing monitoring.
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, Biology > Benthos > Macrobenthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Long term follow up, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,0441; MinLat: 51,155 - MaxLong: 3,06; MaxLat: 51,584 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
From 2001 on [In Progress]
Parameters

Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Contributors
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Landbouw en Visserij; Instituut voor landbouw- , visserij en voedingsonderzoek; Kenniseenheid: Dier; Aquatisch Milieu en Kwaliteit; Biologisch milieuonderzoeksgroep, data creator
Van Hoey, Gert
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
ILVO macrobenthos in soft sediments: macrobenthos monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea since 1979
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2016-05-03
Metadatarecord created: 2016-05-27
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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