BIOMAERL.Maerl Biodiversity.Functional Structure And Antropogenic Impacts (1996-1998).
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10.25607/zp0vwl
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10.15468/opxm7v
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- http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=biomaerl
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7ba26ff7-d8cb-4d95-912c-38cd8223c983
- Publication Date
- 2023-02-23
- Title
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BIOMAERL.Maerl Biodiversity.Functional Structure And Antropogenic Impacts (1996-1998).
- Abstract
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In this study, performed under the LifeWatchGreece infrastructure, are presented preliminary results from the digitization of biodiversity data from various sampling expeditions carried out from 1996 to 1999. The main purposes of the project were to examine the biodiversity of mäerl habitats in European seas, assess the anthropogenic impacts and develop conservation strategies for European mäerl beds. Twelve sampling sites were selected. Six of them were subjected to anthropogenic impacts and the other six represented pristine conditions as far as possible. Overall, 4127 records of marine biota were digitized belonging to phyla of the kingdoms Bacteria, Plantae, Chromista and Animalia.
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ENGLISH
- Dataset Creator
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School of Marine Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth - Jason Hall-Spencer (Professor of Marine Biology)
Room 406, Davy Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
,Plymouth
,UNITED_KINGDOM
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School of Marine Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth - Jason Hall-Spencer (Professor of Marine Biology)
Room 406, Davy Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
,Plymouth
,UNITED_KINGDOM
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Metadata
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Geographic Coverage
- Geographic Description
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Twelve stations-control,impacted:UAC,UAI,UKC,UKI,UBBC,UBBI,UBGC,UBGI,UMC,UMI,USC,USI.
Bounding Box
- West Bounding Coordinate
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-19.424
- East Bounding Coordinate
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23.555
- North Bounding Coordinate
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59.4
- South Bounding Coordinate
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34.958
Temporal Coverage
Range of Dates
- Begin Date
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1996-02-12
- End Date
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1998-11-17
Taxonomic Coverage
- General Taxonomic Coverage
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Annelida
Arthropoda
Brachiopoda
Bryozoa
Cephalorhyncha
Chaetognatha
Chlorophyta
Chordata
Cnidaria
Ctenophora
Cyanobacteria
Echinodermata
Echiura
Entoprocta
Mollusca
Nematoda
Nemertea
Ochrophyta
Phoronida
Platyhelminthes
Porifera
Rhodophyta
Sipuncula
Tracheophyta
Taxonomic Classification
- Taxonomic Rank Name
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Kingdom
- Taxonomic Rank Value
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Bacteria
Taxonomic Classification
- Taxonomic Rank Name
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Kingdom
- Taxonomic Rank Value
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Chromista
Taxonomic Classification
- Taxonomic Rank Name
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Kingdom
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Plantae
Taxonomic Classification
- Taxonomic Rank Name
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Kingdom
- Taxonomic Rank Value
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Animalia
resourceLicensesLicense Information
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This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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CC-BY-4.0
Distribution
Online
Additional Metadata
Metadata
GBIF Metadata Block
- Date Stamp
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2026-04-14T08:24:03Z
- Citation
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Hall-Spencer J.,Grall J., Gerovasileiou V.,Mavraki D.,Paranou P., Baily N.,Nikolopoulou S.,(2018): BIOMAERL.Maerl Biodiversity.Functional Structure And Antropogenic Impacts (1996-1998).Hellenic Center for Marine Research. https://doi.org/10.25607/zp0vwl accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-04-14.
Methods
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Method Step
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12 sapmpling stations.
Sampling
- Study Extent
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The dataset includes an inventory of records of 253 sampling expeditions during 1996 -1998 period. In total, 12 sampling sites from UK, France, Malta and Spain were selected, from which half of them were corresponded to affected locations and the rest to reference locations.
- Sampling Description
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The sampling equipment and the methods used were the following: beam trawls, scallop dredges, Naturalist's dredges, ring dredges, bucket dredges, van Veen grabs, Day grabs, Jonasson Olausson box cores, Senckenberg box cores, hand-held cores, air-lifting, resin cast cores, resin cast burrows, video from a Remote Operated Vehicle, 1m2 quadrats, SCUBA, AQUAREVE dredges, Reineck box cores and Smith-Mclntyre grabs, water samples,Rallier du Baty samples, vertical sampler cores, hand vane testers, plankton nets, Secchi disc
qualityControl
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All records were digitized and species names were cross-checked and taxonomically updated using the Taxon Match tool “World Register of Marine Species” ( http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=match).
