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Benthic algal vegetation of Borgafjördur
Citation
Munda I. (1969). Benthic algal vegetation of Borgafjördur. Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1587
Contact: Munda, Ikva
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Description
The purpose of this study was to follow the gradient of the benthic algal vegetation from the head to the mouth of the Borgafjördur. Attention was paid to the zonation patterns, algal associations and the species distribution. These data were also compared to the vegetation of other Icelandic fjords.
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 > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Macroalgae
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Algae, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Phytobenthos, Rocky shores, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Iceland, EurOBIS calculated BBOX
Geographical coverage
ANE, Iceland [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -22,0333; MinLat: 63,917 - MaxLong: -19,0105; MaxLat: 64,929 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1969 - 1970
Parameter
Presence of biota
Contributors
Munda, Ikva, data manager, data creator
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Scientific research centre, more, data provider, data creator
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
LargeNet database, more
Publication
Describing this dataset
Munda, I. (1980). Survey of the benthic algal vegetation of the Borgarfjördur, Southwest Iceland. Nova Hedwigia 32: 855-927, more
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2009-03-02
Metadatarecord created: 2008-01-21
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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