Description
In this study, performed under the LifeWatchGreece infrastructure, are presented preliminary results from the digitization of biodiversity data from various sampling expeditions carried out from 1996 to 1999. The main purposes of the project were to examine the biodiversity of mäerl habitats in European seas, assess the anthropogenic impacts and develop conservation strategies for European mäerl beds. Twelve sampling sites were selected. Six of them were subjected to anthropogenic impacts and the other six represented pristine conditions as far as possible. Overall, 4127 records of marine biota were digitized belonging to phyla of the kingdoms Bacteria, Plantae, Chromista and Animalia.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 12 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Hall-Spencer J.,Grall J., Gerovasileiou V.,Mavraki D.,Paranou P., Baily N.,Nikolopoulou S.,(2018): BIOMAERL.Maerl Biodiversity.Functional Structure And Antropogenic Impacts (1996-1998).Hellenic Center for Marine Research.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Hellenic Center for Marine Research. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7ba26ff7-d8cb-4d95-912c-38cd8223c983. Hellenic Center for Marine Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
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Geographic Coverage
Twelve stations-control,impacted:UAC,UAI,UKC,UKI,UBBC,UBBI,UBGC,UBGI,UMC,UMI,USC,USI.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [34.958, -19.424], North East [59.4, 23.555] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Annelida Arthropoda Brachiopoda Bryozoa Cephalorhyncha Chaetognatha Chlorophyta Chordata Cnidaria Ctenophora Cyanobacteria Echinodermata Echiura Entoprocta Mollusca Nematoda Nemertea Ochrophyta Phoronida Platyhelminthes Porifera Rhodophyta Sipuncula Tracheophyta
| Kingdom | Bacteria, Chromista, Plantae, Animalia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1996-02-12 / 1998-11-17 |
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Sampling Methods
The sampling equipment and the methods used were the following: beam trawls, scallop dredges, Naturalist's dredges, ring dredges, bucket dredges, van Veen grabs, Day grabs, Jonasson & Olausson box cores, Senckenberg box cores, hand-held cores, air-lifting, resin cast cores, resin cast burrows, video from a Remote Operated Vehicle, 1m2 quadrats, SCUBA, AQUAREVE dredges, Reineck box cores and Smith-Mclntyre grabs, water samples,Rallier du Baty samples, vertical sampler cores, hand vane testers, plankton nets, Secchi disc
| Study Extent | The dataset includes an inventory of records of 253 sampling expeditions during 1996 -1998 period. In total, 12 sampling sites from UK, France, Malta and Spain were selected, from which half of them were corresponded to affected locations and the rest to reference locations. |
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| Quality Control | All records were digitized and species names were cross-checked and taxonomically updated using the Taxon Match tool “World Register of Marine Species” (http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=match). |
Method step description:
- 12 sapmpling stations.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.25607/zp0vwl |
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| 7ba26ff7-d8cb-4d95-912c-38cd8223c983 | |
| http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=biomaerl |