Description
Three seasonal sampling campaigns (winter, summer before touristic period, summer after touristic period) were implemented during 2012 in three Mediterranean touristic ports: Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), Heraklion (Crete, Greece) and El Kantaoui (Tunisia). Three to five stations were sampled per port, which were part of different port sectors (leisure, fishing, passenger, cargo, shipyard). Three water and three sediment replicate samples were collected per station for analysis of nutrients, pigments and hydrocarbons. One replicate was analysed for physical parameters, heavy metals and granulometry. Five sediment replicates were collected for analysis of benthic biodiversity. Benthic organisms were sorted to the main taxonomic groups (e.g. .Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata) and identified to species level.
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 540 records.
2 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Chatzinikolaou E., Arvanitidis C. (2017). Benthic communities and environmental parameters in three Mediterranean ports (Sardinia, Crete, Tunisia).
Rights
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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: 9b11f305-fb7a-4a65-826e-7fb97af06e5f. Hellenic Center for Marine Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Mediterranean Sea; Ports; Physical parameters; Hydrocarbons; Heavy metals; Nutrients; Benthic biodiversity
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Cagliari: 5 stations (C1,C2,C3,C4,C5). Heraklion: 4 stations(H1,H3,H4,H5). El Kantaoui: 3 stations(E1,E2,E3). The values given below are maximum station depth. At the same time, this is sampling depth for all sediment samples and benthos. C1 = 7.8m, C2 = 4.5m, C3 = 8.3m, C4 = 13.5m, C5 = 11.4m. H1 = 3.7m, H3 = 19.5m, H4 = 10.5m, H5 = 19.0m. E1 = 2.5m, E2 = 4.0m, E3 = 3.2m.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [33.724, 7.954], North East [41.311, 27.598] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Macrobenthos
| Phylum | Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, Nematoda, Sipuncula, Nemertea, Cnidaria |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2012-02-13 / 2012-09-25 |
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Project Data
http://www.mapmed.eu/
| Title | Management of Port areas in the Mediterranean Sea Basin (MAPMED). |
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| Funding | This dataset has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union under the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
- Principal Investigator
Sampling Methods
Physical properties of water samples (water temperature, salinity, oxygen, pH) were measured on board with a 3420 WTW multi-meter. Turbidity was measured using a Secchi disk. Redox potential of sediment samples was measured with a SenTix ORP 900 WTW electrode. Sediment temperature was measured using a digital sediment thermometer. Water samples (5L) were collected using plastic containers from the sea surface and analysed for nutrients, pigments, hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Sediment samples were collected using a custom-made hand-operated box corer (13.5 x 13.5 x 16 cm) equipped with a modular expandable handle. For benthos box corer samples were sieved using a 0.5 mm sieve and then fixed and preserved in 5% formaldehyde buffered with seawater. For nutrients, pigments, hydrocarbons, heavy metals and granulometry sediment subsamples were collected using small plastic cores (diameter 4.4 cm).
| Study Extent | Ports of Cagliari-Sardinia, Heraklion-Crete, El Kantaoui-Tunisia |
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Method step description:
- 1)Five replicates per station for benthos. 2)Three replicates per station for water and sediment samples: nutrients, pigments, hydrocarbons. 3)One replicate per station for water and sediment samples: physical parameters, heavy metals, granulometry. 4)Water samples were collected from the seawater surface (depth 0-1 m).
Bibliographic Citations
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. Publications: 1)Chatzinikolaou, E., Arvanitidis, C. (2016) Status, values and present threats in Heraklion harbour (Crete, Greece). Regional Studies in Marine Science. 8: 252-258. 2)Chatzinikolaou et al (2017, under review) Benthic biodiversity in three Mediterranean touristic ports. The Science of the Total Environment.
| Alternative Identifiers | a375889c-8799-4ea3-8827-de3dce518663 |
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| 9b11f305-fb7a-4a65-826e-7fb97af06e5f | |
| http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=mapmed_ports |