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Macrobenthos from the Norwegian waters
Citation
Cochrane, S. (2001). Macrobenthos from the Norwegian waters. Akvaplan-niva, Norway. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1856
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Cochrane, Sabine Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Notes: Restrictions apply to some or all of the data
Description
Contains information mainly from studies around offshore oil and gas platforms in the Norwegian waters. 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 Keywords: Marine/Coastal, 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, ANE, Norwegian Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage ANE, Norwegian Sea [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 1,6667; MinLat: 58 - MaxLong: 3,8383; MaxLat: 61,0204 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
2000 - 2001 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] Macrobenthos density 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
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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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