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NIOZ Wadden Sea Macrozoobenthos Balgzand 1971-present
Citation
Van der Veer H W (2017): NIOZ Wadden Sea Macrozoobenthos Balgzand 1971-present. v1.1. NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. Dataset/Metadata. http://ipt.nioz.nl/resource?r=nioz_wadden_sea_macrozoobenthos&v=1.1. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5767
Contact: van der Veer, Henk

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
In the late 1960-ties work on the productivity of intertidal benthos at Balgzand was started at NIOZ and this has resulted of a continuous series of benthos density and biomass data on a number of transects in late winter and late summer until present. In order to study the variability in impact of epibenthic predators on especially newly-settled bivalves, in 1983 a series of observations of densities of juvenile epibenthic predators (shrimps and shore crabs) was started on 3 locations, in 1998 extended to 5 locations at Balgzand and still running. As a result of the first inventory a bi-annual sampling programme (late winter/late summer) at three transects was started in 1989 in the Marsdiep tidal basin in the framework of the RWS BIOMON monitoring and carried out by NIOZ until recently.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Invertebrates
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Predators, ANE, Southern Wadden Sea

Geographical coverage
ANE, Southern Wadden Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1 January 1971 on [In Progress]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), moredata creator
van der Veer, Henk

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2017-07-14
Information last updated: 2022-08-09
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