NIOZ Wadden Sea Macrozoobenthos Balgzand 1971-present

Henk W. Van der Veer1, Taco de Bruin1

1 NIOZ, 

Corresponding author(s): Henk W. Van der Veer (veer@nioz.nl), Taco de Bruin (taco.de.bruin@nioz.nl)

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Resource Citation

Van der Veer H W (2023): NIOZ Wadden Sea Macrozoobenthos Balgzand 1971-present. v1.3. NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. Dataset/Metadata. http://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=nioz_wadden_sea_macrozoobenthos&v=1.3

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Metadata, Metadata

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=nioz_wadden_sea_macrozoobenthos

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Macrozoobenthos
Common names: Macrozoobenthos

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Balgzand intertidal, Marsdiep tidal basin
Coordinates: 52°51'39.6''N and 53°4'15.6''N Latitude; 4°44'27.6''E and 5°6'39.6''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1971

Methods

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Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-07-10
Hierarchy level: Dataset