10.15468/xrlqx4 a375889c-8799-4ea3-8827-de3dce518663 http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=mapmed_ports 9b11f305-fb7a-4a65-826e-7fb97af06e5f Eva Chatzinikolaou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Post Doc Researcher

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00302810337741 evachatz@hcmr.gr Christos Arvanitidis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Director of Research

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00302810337741 evachatz@hcmr.gr Stamatina Nikolopoulou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Research Technician CUSTODIAN_STEWARD Dimitra Mavraki Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Research Technician CUSTODIAN_STEWARD 2025-02-18 ENGLISH Three seasonal sampling campaigns (winter, summer before touristic period, summer after touristic period) were implemented during 2012 in three Mediterranean touristic ports: Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), Heraklion (Crete, Greece) and El Kantaoui (Tunisia). Three to five stations were sampled per port, which were part of different port sectors (leisure, fishing, passenger, cargo, shipyard). Three water and three sediment replicate samples were collected per station for analysis of nutrients, pigments and hydrocarbons. One replicate was analysed for physical parameters, heavy metals and granulometry. Five sediment replicates were collected for analysis of benthic biodiversity. Benthic organisms were sorted to the main taxonomic groups (e.g. .Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata) and identified to species level. Mediterranean Sea; Ports; Physical parameters; Hydrocarbons; Heavy metals; Nutrients; Benthic biodiversity GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml Samplingevent GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml marine, harvested by iOBIS. Publications: 1)Chatzinikolaou, E., Arvanitidis, C. (2016) Status, values and present threats in Heraklion harbour (Crete, Greece). Regional Studies in Marine Science. 8: 252-258. 2)Chatzinikolaou et al (2017, under review) Benthic biodiversity in three Mediterranean touristic ports. The Science of the Total Environment. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License . Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 http://ipt.medobis.eu/archive.do?r=mapmed_ports Cagliari: 5 stations (C1,C2,C3,C4,C5). Heraklion: 4 stations(H1,H3,H4,H5). El Kantaoui: 3 stations(E1,E2,E3). The values given below are maximum station depth. At the same time, this is sampling depth for all sediment samples and benthos. C1 = 7.8m, C2 = 4.5m, C3 = 8.3m, C4 = 13.5m, C5 = 11.4m. H1 = 3.7m, H3 = 19.5m, H4 = 10.5m, H5 = 19.0m. E1 = 2.5m, E2 = 4.0m, E3 = 3.2m. 7.954 27.598 41.311 33.724 2012-02-13 2012-09-25 Macrobenthos Phylum Annelida Phylum Mollusca Phylum Arthropoda Phylum Echinodermata Phylum Nematoda Phylum Sipuncula Phylum Nemertea Phylum Cnidaria unkown Thanos Dailianis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Postdoc Researcher Manolis Mandalakis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Postdoc Researcher Alessandra Carucci University of Cagliari,Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture professor Felicita Scapini Department of Biology, University of Florence Professor

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Giovanna Cappai University of Cagliari,Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture Associate Professor Panagiotis Damianidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Science, School of Biology - Department Zoology Postdoc Researcher Wanda Plaitis Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Research Technician Eva Chatzinikolaou Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture Post Doc Researcher

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00302810337741 evachatz@hcmr.gr 1)Five replicates per station for benthos. 2)Three replicates per station for water and sediment samples: nutrients, pigments, hydrocarbons. 3)One replicate per station for water and sediment samples: physical parameters, heavy metals, granulometry. 4)Water samples were collected from the seawater surface (depth 0-1 m). Ports of Cagliari-Sardinia, Heraklion-Crete, El Kantaoui-Tunisia Physical properties of water samples (water temperature, salinity, oxygen, pH) were measured on board with a 3420 WTW multi-meter. Turbidity was measured using a Secchi disk. Redox potential of sediment samples was measured with a SenTix ORP 900 WTW electrode. Sediment temperature was measured using a digital sediment thermometer. Water samples (5L) were collected using plastic containers from the sea surface and analysed for nutrients, pigments, hydrocarbons and heavy metals. Sediment samples were collected using a custom-made hand-operated box corer (13.5 x 13.5 x 16 cm) equipped with a modular expandable handle. For benthos box corer samples were sieved using a 0.5 mm sieve and then fixed and preserved in 5% formaldehyde buffered with seawater. For nutrients, pigments, hydrocarbons, heavy metals and granulometry sediment subsamples were collected using small plastic cores (diameter 4.4 cm). Christos Arvanitidis PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR Alessandra Carucci PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR http://www.mapmed.eu/ This dataset has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union under the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. 2026-04-14T08:23:10Z Chatzinikolaou E., Arvanitidis C. (2017). Benthic communities and environmental parameters in three Mediterranean ports (Sardinia, Crete, Tunisia). https://doi.org/10.15468/xrlqx4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-04-14. http://ipt.medobis.eu/logo.do?r=egyptexpeditionbryozoa