Quantitative data of a molluscan community living in Posidonia oceanica at the south coast of Crete, Greece.

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26 February 2024
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Description

The dataset contains abundance data of benthic molluscs collected in a Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias, SW Crete, Greece, eastern Mediterranean Sea. The sampling occurred in spring and autumn, along a depth transect with stations at 5, 10, 15 and 20 m, and separately for the leaf and rhizome strata. The minimum mesh size is 1 mm.

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Martina Holzknecht & Paolo G. Albano, Mollusca from Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias, Crete, Greece (Eastern Mediterranean)

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Keywords

Metadata; Posidonia oceanica;; Mollusca;; Lessepsian invasion;; Crete; Greece;; Levantine Basin; Metadata

Contacts

Martina Holzknecht
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna
Althanstrasse 14
1090 VIENNA
AT
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0317-6031
Paolo G. Albano
  • Point Of Contact ●
  • Principal Investigator
Senior Scientist
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Villa Comunale
Naples
IT
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9876-1024

Geographic Coverage

Plakias, SW Crete, Greece, eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Bounding Coordinates South West [35.068, 24.126], North East [35.264, 24.664]

Taxonomic Coverage

benthic molluscs collected in a Posidonia oceanica meadow in Plakias. Polyplacophora, Gastropoda, Bivalvia

Phylum Mollusca

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 2017-05-01
Start Date 2017-09-30

Project Data

No Description available

Title “Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration” project
Funding Fieldwork was supported by the KWA–Kurzfristige Auslandstipendien of the University of Vienna. This research was conducted in the framework of the project “Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) P28983-B29 (PI: PGA). Martin Zuschin, University of Vienna, supported us throughout the whole project. The Mare Mundi and Dive2gether Marine Field Station in Crete hosted the team during fieldwork. Stefan Duijvestijn, Michael Holzknecht, Nadja Loferer and Denny Morchner supported sampling and lab work.

The personnel involved in the project:

Paolo G. Albano
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9876-1024

Sampling Methods

SCUBA-Gear, Airlift-Sampler, Hand-nets, Stereomicroscopes

Study Extent Plakias Bay, Crete, Greece.

Method step description:

  1. The area sampled is 1 m2 for each replicate. Each station has 6 replicates.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Martina Holzknecht & Paolo G. Albano The molluscan assemblage of a pristine Posidonia oceanica meadow in the eastern Mediterranean (2022) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-022-01292-2
  2. Albano P.G., Steger J., Bakker P.A.J., Bogi C., Bošnjak M., Guy-Haim T., Huseyinoglu M.F., LaFollette P.I., Lubinevsky H., Mulas M., Stockinger M., Azzarone M., Sabelli B., Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification (2021) https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1010.58759
  3. Steger J., Stockinger M., Ivkić A., Galil B.S. and Albano P.G., New records of non-indigenous molluscs from the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Bioinvasions Records (2018) 7(3): 245–257 https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7

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