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Plymouth sound dataset. Soft sediment macrobenthos from the Plymouth Sound from 1995
Citable as data publication
Kendall, M., S. Widdicombe, 1999: Plymouth sound dataset. Soft sediment macrobenthos from the Plymouth Sound from 1995. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK. https://doi.org/10.14284/297
Contact: Kendall, Mike
Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
The intended use of this dataset of the Plymouth Sound was the description of small-scale spatial patterns in soft sediment fauna. 44 stations were sampled for macrofauna around the British Isles during the period of July and August 1995
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, 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, British Isles, England, Plymouth Sound, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, England, Plymouth Sound [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -4,6667; MinLat: 50,3333 - MaxLong: -4,6667; MaxLat: 50,3333 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
July 1995 - August 1995
Parameters

Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Density
Contributors
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), more, data owner, data creator
Kendall, Mike
Widdicombe, Steve
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Perez Perez, Ruben
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Macroben: Macroben database (Marbef Theme 1 workshop), more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Kendall, M.A.; Widdicombe, S. (1999). Small scale patterns in the structure of macrofaunal assemblages of shallow soft sediments. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 237: 127-140, more
Kendall, M.A. (1996). Are Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthic communities impoverished? Polar Biol. 16: 393-399, more
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2008-11-12
Metadatarecord created: 2005-06-14
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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