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Baltic Sea benthic meiofauna and macrofauna mid 1990s
Citation
Duplisea, D.E. 1998. Structuring of benthic communities, with a focus on size spectra. PhD thesis. Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University. ISBN 91-628-2919-X. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/2501
Contact: Duplisea, Daniel

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

Description
Biomass and abundance of western Baltic Sea benthic meio and macrofauna (all fauna >6 um sieve). Individual measures of body size, from Bornholm to Lulea. Only from Swedish and Danish waters. more

Individual size measurments made on fauna captured from Kajak gravity corer and van Veen grabs. Much of the sampling was conducted in conjunction with the Swedish Environmental Protection agencies annual benthic macrofauna survey. These samples formed the bulk of the doctoral thesis of Daniel Duplisea at the Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University in the mid 1990s. There are few replicates but a decent spatial coverage. Environmental data on bottom water temperature, salinity, oxygen, sediment C and N and loss of weight on ignition are included for many stations.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Brackish water, Abundance, Benthos, Biomass, Meiofauna, ANE, Western Baltic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, Western Baltic [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 13,425; MinLat: 55,2233 - MaxLong: 23,4433; MaxLat: 65,4583 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
15 May 1994 - 21 June 1995

Contributors
Government of Canada; Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), moredata ownerdata creator
Duplisea, Daniel
Stockholm University; Department of Systems Ecology, moredata ownerdata creator
Elmgren, Ragnar

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Presence/Absence maps of phytoplankton in the Greater Baltic Sea

Publication
Based on this dataset
Duplisea, D.E. (2000). Benthic organism biomass size-spectra in the Baltic Sea in relation to the sediment environment. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45(3): 558-568

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2010-07-27
Information last updated: 2010-08-31
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