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Epibenthic fauna along the salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area in 1990
Citable as data publication
Puturuhu L.; Vincx M.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME). VUB; Marine Biology Section, Zoology Institute. Ugent: Belgium; (2016): Epibenthic fauna along the salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area in 1990. https://doi.org/10.14284/222
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Description
Overview of monthly epibenthic fauna in a marine and brackish zone along the salinity gradient of the Westerschelde in 1990. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Puturuhu, L. (1994). Density, biomass and feeding consumption of some demersal fish along salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area. MSc Thesis. RUG: Gent. IV, 44 pp. more

The epibenthic fauna was collected with the R. V. 'Luctor' with a 3 metre beam trawl every month during 1990. Forty-five epibenthic species were found in the study area and dominated by brown shrimp Crangon crangon, lozano's goby Pomatoschistus lozanoi, sand goby P. minutus, dab Limanda limanda and shore crab Carcinus maenas.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Epibenthos, Salinity gradients, ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde, ANE, Scheldt Estuary, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758), Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758), Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758), Pomatoschistus lozanoi (de Buen, 1923), Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770)
Geographical coverage
ANE, Netherlands, Westerschelde [Marine Regions]
ANE, Scheldt Estuary [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 3,5961; MinLat: 51,3583 - MaxLong: 4,2083; MaxLat: 51,4357 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
January 1990 - December 1990
Monthly
Taxonomic coverage
Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Crangon crangon (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Limanda limanda (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Pomatoschistus lozanoi (de Buen, 1923) [WoRMS]
Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) [WoRMS]
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC]
Ash-free dry weight (AFDW) biomass
Ash-free dry weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Epibenthos density Methodology
Epibenthos density: Beam Trawling
Samples were taken from the R/V Shikmona using a 1.15 m wide beam trawl. Each "run" had a duration of 20 minutes and three "runs" were taken in each station.
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME), more, data creator
Puturuhu, Louise
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Onderzoeksgroep Mariene Biologie (MARBIOL), more, data creator, data creator
Vincx, Magda
Hostens, Kristian (Kris)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), more, data creator
Herman, Peter
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL), more, data creator
Daro, Marie Hermande
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EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Publication
Based on this dataset
Puturuhu, L. (1994). Density, biomass and feeding consumption of some demersal fish along salinity gradient in the Westerschelde area. MSc Thesis. RUG: Gent. IV, 44 pp., more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2014-05-20
Information last updated: 2016-10-05
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