Description
Occurrence dataset for 775 beach meiofauna specimens collected during the beach meiofauna taxonomy and DNA barcoding workshops at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in May/June 2022 and July/August 2023.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 774 records.
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.
Versions
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Naturalis Biodiversity Center. 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: f23df737-1b45-4353-86b0-3d20386b646f. Naturalis Biodiversity Center publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; meiofauna; meiobenthos; beach; interstitial; groundwater
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Geographic Coverage
Sandy beaches of the Dutch West Coast, between Renesse (Zeeland) and Den Burg, Texel, North Holland
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [51.722, 3.904], North East [53.135, 4.683] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Interstitial beach meifauna
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-05-23 / 2023-08-08 |
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Project Data
Taxonomic expert workshop on sandy beach meiofauna
| Title | Beach Meiofauna Workshops, Naturalis, Leiden, 2022 & 2023 |
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| Funding | Biodiversity, Ecology, Nature project - Stemmler Stiftung |
| Study Area Description | Sandy beaches of the Dutch West Coast |
| Design Description | Sediment cores; extraction of meiofauna with MgCl2, identification of specimens by taxonomic experts |
Sampling Methods
Sediment cores and scraped sediment from the intertidal zone of sandy beaches, from beach groundwater, and from dune base.
| Study Extent | Sandy beaches of the Dutch West Coast, during the beach meiofauna taxonomy and DNA barcoding workshops at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in May/June 2022 and July/August 2023. |
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| Quality Control | Taxonomic experts identified the specimens. |
Method step description:
- Data collated and reviewed before publishing
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | f23df737-1b45-4353-86b0-3d20386b646f |
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| https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=meiofauna_workshops_naturalis |