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Macrozoobenthos from the Belgian Continental Shelf, collected in 2000
Citation
Hillewaert, H. (2000). Macrozoobenthos from the Belgian Continental Shelf, collected in 2000. Vlaamse Overheid; Beleidsdomein Landbouw en Visserij; Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek; Kenniseenheid: Dier; Onderzoeksdomein Visserij, Belgium. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1855
Contact: Hillewaert, Hans
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Notes: Restrictions apply to some or all of the data
Description
56 samples of macrozoobenthos collected in the Belgian part of the North Sea in 2000. Sampling device was a Van Veen grab.
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, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Macrobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Zoobenthos, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 2,4633; MinLat: 51,1842 - MaxLong: 3,365; MaxLat: 51,8475 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
2000
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Description of grain-size kurtosis of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Kurtosos Vocabulary (SDN:GS6::) [BODC]
Description of grain-size skewness of sediment by classification to a term from the Geo-Seas Particle Size Skewness Vocabulary (SDN:GS5::) [BODC]
Description of lithology of sediment by visual estimation [BODC]
Grain-size kurtosis of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size mode of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Grain-size skewness of particles in sediment by particle sizer [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (0-63um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (1000-2000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (2000-4000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (4000-8000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (500-1000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Proportion by weight or volume of particles (8000-16000um) in the sediment [BODC]
Contributors
Onderzoeksdomein Visserij, more, data provider, data creator
Hillewaert, Hans
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Perez Perez, Ruben
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
NSBP: North Sea Benthos Project, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2009-02-26
Metadatarecord created: 2009-02-18
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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