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Darwin Mounds
Citation
Van Gaever, S. (2000). Meiobenthos of the Darwin mounds (North-East Atlantic). Ghent University, Department of Biology, Marine Biology Section (MARBIOL), Belgium. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/758
Contact: Van Gaever, Saskia
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Description
The Darwin mounds area was sampled to investigate the importance of local-scale topographic features and small-scale biogenic structures in influencing the density and diversity of the associated meiobenthic communities and nematodes in particular.
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, Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Deep sea, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Meiobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda, Nematoda
Geographical coverage
Atlantic North East [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -7,6977; MinLat: 59,6 - MaxLong: -7,3573; MaxLat: 59,8182 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
11 July 2000 - 19 July 2000
Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Parameters
Count
Density
Contributors
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more, data owner, data creator
Van Gaever, Saskia
Related datasets
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EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database
Publication
Based on this dataset
Van Gaever, S. et al. (2004). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic) J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 84(3): 547-556. dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315404009555h
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2009-03-10
Metadatarecord created: 2006-02-09
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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