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/doc/dataset/2501
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.
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:
Brackish water · Abundance · Benthos · Bio-geographical regions · Biomass · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Meiofauna · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Western Baltic
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
