IMIS | Encora

Contact database

Understanding benthic, pelagic and air-borne ecosystem interactions in shallow coastal seas
https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/midas/cruise.php?thiscamp=54 www.belspo.be/belspo/fedra/proj.asp?l=nl&COD=SD/BN/01A www.vliz.be/projects/westbanks

Original title: Interacties tussen het benthische en pelagische ecosysteem in ondiepe kustzones en de effecten op de avifauna
Funder identifier: SD/BN/01A; 1042 (Other contract id)
Acronym: WESTBANKS
Period: December 2006 till January 2011
Status: Completed

Thesaurus terms Biodiversity; Birds (marine); Marine ecology; Marine invertebrates
Taxonomic terms: Abra alba (W. Wood, 1802) [WoRMS]; Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]; Gyrodactylus von Nordmann, 1832 [WoRMS]; Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766) [WoRMS]; Melanitta nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]; Mysella bidentata (Montagu, 1803) [WoRMS]; Nephtys hombergii Savigny in Lamarck, 1818 [WoRMS]; Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]; Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) [WoRMS]; Solea solea (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]; Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]; Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787 [WoRMS]; [WoRMS]
Geographical term: ANE, Belgium, Belgian Coast [Marine Regions]

Institutes

Institutes (5)

Top

Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more, co-ordinator

Vincx, Magda, co-ordinator
Vanaverbeke, Jan, co-ordinator
Rabaut, Marijn, researcher
Vanreusel, Ann

Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee; NIOZ Yerseke, more, partner

Heip, Carlo, partner

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

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, partner

Mees, Jan, partner
Hernandez, Francisco, data manager
Deneudt, Klaas, data manager
Goffin, Annelies, data manager
Seys, Jan, partner

Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO), more, sponsor

Cox, David

Abstract

The research project WestBanks builds on the expertise and knowledge about the structural and functional characteristics of the higher trophic levels (benthos, fish and birds) obtained in the recent years within the ‘Biodiversity-North Sea’ research networks financed by PPS Science Policy, Belgium. WestBanks will focus on the interactions between sediment, water and air at the ecosystem, species and population level. In order to maximize the integration of our results, we target a single area of the Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), the Western Coastal Banks area which is an important foraging area for seabirds; the area is also an important fishing and nursery ground for flatfish while the sediment in the area harbours a rich macrobenthic community. The structural characteristics of all size classes of the benthos of the area are very well known
The WestBanks proposal is divided over 4 work packages :

Benthic-pelagic coupling,
The role of dispersal for benthic organisms and demersal fish,
Air-sea biotic coupling and
Coordination, data management and valorization.

All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy

Top | Institutes

Contact Database

Add Contact

Edit Contact

Contact database