IMIS

Linking pelagic food web and its top predators: bird and prey fish sampling - Westbanks [Linken van het pelagische voedselweb en de toppredatoren: bemonsteren van vogels en prooivissen - Westbanks]

Citation

Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek- Belgium. Linking pelagic food web and its top predators: bird and prey fish sampling - Westbanks - SSD - Belgian Science Policy. http://www.vliz.be/projects/westbanks/westbanks.php?module=dataset&dasid=1261. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1261

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Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Birds (terns) and prey fish are sampled at several locations along the Belgian coast. Fish are counted and measured. Stomach content analyses and length measurements are performed on seabirds. The results are recorded in this database.

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 > Birds, Biology > Fish

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Birds · Birds (marine) · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Fish · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Population dynamics · Predator prey interactions · Sea regions · Stomach content · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Belgian Coast · Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) · Flemish Banks · Vlakte van de Raan · Westdiep · Zeebrugge · Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758

Geographical coverage

Belgian Coast [Marine Regions]

Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box

Flemish Banks Stations [Marine Regions]

Binnen Ratel

Vlakte van de Raan [Marine Regions]

Westdiep [Marine Regions]

Zeebrugge [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

2005 - 2006

2006 - 2010
Monthly

26 July 2006 - 7 June 2010 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage

Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]

Parameters

Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Count of fish
Fish length
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Stomach content seabirds

Contributors

Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO), more, data owner

Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek; Afdeling Biodiversiteit en Natuurlijk Milieu; Onderzoeksgroep Ecosysteemdiversiteit, more, data owner

Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), more, data owner

Related datasets

Parent dataset:

Study of birds in Zeebrugge, more

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

IMERS: Integrated Marine Environmental Samples and Readings, more

(Partly) included in:

PROJECT DATA: WESTBANKS integrated database (2007-2010), more

Project

WESTBANKS: Understanding benthic, pelagic and air-borne ecosystem interactions in shallow coastal seas, more

Grant agreement ID SD/BN/01A; 1042