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Macro-and meiobenthos of an Avicennia marina mangrove in Gazi Bay in 1992
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Silence J.; Polk P.; Faculteit Wetenschappen; VUB: Belgium; (2015): Macro-and meiobenthos of an Avicennia marina mangrove in Gazi Bay in 1992. https://doi.org/10.14284/76
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Description
List of macro-and meiobenthos species in an Avicennia site and comparison between meiobenthos densities from an Avicennia and Ceriops plot. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Silence, J. (1993). Onderzoek naar de invloed van macrofauna op de verticale distributie van meiobenthos in een Avicennia mangal, Gazi Bay, Kenya = Study of the influence of macrofauna on the vertical distribution of meiobenthos in an Avicennia Mangal, Gazi Bay, Kenya. BSc Thesis. Free University of Brussels, Faculty of Science: Brussel. 220 pp. more

Study on an Avicennia site located in the upper intertidal zone of Gazi Bay, Kenya. Exclusions were performed by the use of cube cages with walls of plastic net with a meshwidth of 1 mm. In order to evaluate possible procedure-effects, partial cages (i.e. Cages with with one side left open) were placed in the field. Three replica's were taken from three treatments (cage, partial cage and blanco). The experimental units were placed in the field following the Randomized Block Design.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Macrobenthos, Mangroves, Meiobenthos, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Gazi Bay, Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh., Halacaroidea Cunliffe, 1954, Nematoda, Oligochaeta, Turbellaria

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,8333; MinLat: -4,4167 - MaxLong: 39,8333; MaxLat: -4,4167 [WGS84]
ISW, Kenya, Gazi Bay [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
6 August 1992 - 26 November 1992
Monthly

Taxonomic coverage
Avicennia marina (Forssk.) Vierh. [WoRMS]
Halacaroidea Cunliffe, 1954 [WoRMS]
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Oligochaeta [WoRMS]
Turbellaria [WoRMS]

Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Meiobenthos density
Presence of biota

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL)data creatordata creator
Silence, Jurgen
Polk, Philip
Fiers, Frank

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Publication
Based on this dataset
Silence, J. (1993). Onderzoek naar de invloed van macrofauna op de verticale distributie van meiobenthos in een Avicennia mangal, Gazi Bay, Kenya = Study of the influence of macrofauna on the vertical distribution of meiobenthos in an Avicennia Mangal, Gazi Bay, Kenya. MSc Thesis. Free University of Brussels, Faculty of Science: Brussel. 220 pp.

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2014-08-04
Information last updated: 2016-11-08
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