ANEMOON Beach washup monitoring (SMP) data along the Dutch coastline collected through citizen science.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 5,028 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Stichting ANEMOON. ANEMOON Beach washup monitoring (SMP) data along the Dutch coastline collected through citizen science. Version 1.0. stichting ANEMOON. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=anemoon_smp_1977_2024&v=1.0

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is stichting ANEMOON. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 01f868e3-be61-436a-a94a-07e7c9e63796.  stichting ANEMOON publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Citizen science

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Locations scattered across the Dutch coastline.

Project Data

No Description available

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

On transect locations, all washed-up marine organisms and remains are determined and counted on a biweekly or monthly basis. The SMP-trajects vary in length from about one to fout kilometer. Observers make sure they are at the starting point of the SMP traject 30-60 minutes before low tide. Then the first half of the monitoring walk takes place along the low-tide line. At the turning point of the traject the observers turn around and walk back following the high tide line. During the monitoring walk observations are being noted, special findings are photographed and sometimes material is brought home for species determination. Macroalgae, Cnidarians, Gastropods, Cephalopods, Bivalves, Crustaceans, Echinoderms, Shark and Ray egg capsules and Bryozoans are noted at species level. For each species the abundance class (0, 0-10, 11-100, 101-1000, 1001-10000, 10001 – 100000, >100000) and “decay category” are noted (Alive, Doublet, Single valve, Empty snail shell, Flesh remains, Dead (whole specimen), Peel/skeleton, Fragment, without flesh, Exuvia, Subfossil, Fossil, Egg capsule, Egg).

Method step description:

1. Walk fixed SMP trajectory, start 30-60 minutes before low tide, walk along low tide line.
2. Turn at fixed turning point
3. Walk back along high tide line
4. Write down all the species found in the WebApp or on the form, write abundance category and decay category/ lifestage, write XX for Missing Values, write species found that aren’t on the list at “bijschrijfsoorten”.

Additional Metadata