Document of dataset 938

Dataset record

Type

Dataset

title in English

ME-3f. Estuarine macrobenthos of the Schelde estuary (Belgium and The Netherlands) - 1988 onwards

title in nl

ME-3f. Estuarien macrobentos van het Schelde-estuarium (België en Nederland) - Vanaf 1988

Description in English

Other aims are assessing the potential impact of environmental changes; development of statistical tools to predict the occurrence of macrobenthos. Geographical area : several sites scattered over the Schelde estuary, including the polyhaline, mesohaline, oligohaline and freshwater tidal zone of the estuary (both subtidal and intertidal) Parameters : Abundance, biomass and population structure/dynamics of macrobenthic species and a characterisation of the abiotic environment (depth, sediment characteristics, salinity, etc.; at some locations also concentrations of pollutants)

Abstract in English

These data are collected within the framework of different projects. They all have however the same aim: studying the factors determining the distribution of macrobenthic invertebrates in relation to the abiotic environment

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