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De Beers Marine Benthic Monitoring Programme
Citation
Steffani, N; Pulfrich, A. (2013). De Beers Marine Benthic Monitoring Programme. Dataset published by AfrOBIS; consulted via iOBIS. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4749
Availability:
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Description
De Beers Marine undertake offshore marine diamond mining to depths of 130 m on the South African west coast using remote mining tools. A baseline and impact monitoring programme was developed for operations in their ML3 licence area, with the view to quantitatively assessing the direct and indirect effects of deep-water marine mining on benthic macrofaunal communities, and to monitor post-mining recovery. Benthic grab samples were collected from two mined and three unmined sites in 2003, 2008, 2009, 2011, using a Van Veen grab. Macrofauna was identified, and abundance and biomass determined. The data were made available to SADCO as a series of Excel sheets. At SADCO, the data were quality-controlled and transformed to comply with the Darwin Core/OBIS Schema. Funds for data operations were kindly provided by the Census of Marine Life International Cosmos Prize Fund, through a grant to Rutgers University. Scope Themes: Biology > Benthos Keywords: Marine/Coastal, PSW, South Africa, Animalia Geographical coverage PSW, South Africa [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
2003 - 2011 Taxonomic coverage
Animalia [WoRMS]
Parameter
Occurrence of biota Contributors
Pisces Environmental Services (Pty) Ltd, more, data creator
Related datasets
Published in: AfrOBIS: African Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Dataset status: Completed
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-02-24
Information last updated: 2015-06-22
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