Brachiopoda in a Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias, SW Crete, Greece, 2017.

Sampling event
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31 January 2020
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Description

The dataset contains occurrence records of 963 living individuals belonging to two species of brachiopods in a shallow-water Posidonia meadow in Crete sampled in two seasons in 2017 from 5 to 20 m depth.

Data Records

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Event (core)
12
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
49
Occurrence 
49

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Paolo G. Albano & Martina Stockinger. Brachiopoda in a Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias, SW Crete, Greece

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Keywords

Occurrence; Brachiopoda; Crete; seagrass

Contacts

Paolo G. Albano
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Curator ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna
Vienna
AT
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/paolo.albano/
Martina Stockinger
  • Originator
Master's Student
Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna
Vienna
AT
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martina_Stockinger
Stamatina Nikolopoulou
  • Custodian Steward
Research Technician
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture

Geographic Coverage

South West Crete, Plakias bay

Bounding Coordinates South West [35.167, 24.361], North East [35.196, 24.402]

Taxonomic Coverage

Brachiopoda

Family Megathyrididae
Genus Posidonia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2017-05-08 / 2017-09-27

Project Data

PGA research in the Eastern Mediterranean is in the framework of the project “Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration” (PI: PGA)

Title Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration
Funding Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P28983-B29. Master Student’s fieldwork was supported by the Kurzfristige wissenschaftliche Auslandsstipendien of the University of Vienna, the non-profit organization Mare Mundi and the diving school Dive2gether.

The personnel involved in the project:

Paolo G. Albano
  • Principal Investigator

Sampling Methods

Posidonia meadow in Crete sampled in two seasons in 2017 from 5 to 20 m depth. Organisms on the leaves were collected with a net mounted on a metal frame with a 40 × 20-cm opening. The rhizomes were sampled with air-lift suction sampling. The sampler consisted of a PVC tube with a length and diameter of 100 cm and 8 cm, respectively. A SCUBA cylinder supplied air and was fitted at 10 cm above the mouth of the tube. At its other end, it is attached a removable 0.5-mm mesh nylon bag that could be closed and replaced underwater. Sampling on the rhizomes was carried out on 1-m2 square areas after defoliation in order to enhance collecting efficacy

Study Extent Plakias, SW Crete, Greece

Method step description:

  1. Net on Posidonia leaves: 60 strokes per replicate (L6 samples) and 20 strokes per replicate (L2 samples). Suction sampling on Posidonia rhizomes: 1 square meter per replicate

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Albano & Stockinger, 2019. The rhizome layer of Posidonia oceanica: an important habitat for Mediterranean brachiopods. Marine Biodiversity https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-019-00968-6

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