North Sea

Zooplankton and zoobenthos morphological parameters; Chlorophyll pigment concentrations in sediment; Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance; Zoobenthos taxonomy-related counts; Zoobenthos taxonomy-related wet weight biomass per unit area of the bed; Concentration of proteins in sediment; Zoobenthos generic abundance; Carbon concentrations in sediment; Inorganic chemical composition of sediment or rocks

Sediment grabs; unconsolidated sediment corers; rock corers

The benthos data set collected by the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, over the period 1980 to 1986 forms part of the above named benthos data set for the entire North Sea. Note: It may be that this data set will form part of the EDMED submission by the Netherlands.

Basford, D. J. , Eleftheriou, A., Davies, I. M., Irion, G. and Soltwedel, T. (1993) The ICES North Sea benthos survey: the sedimentary environment., ICES Journal Marine Science 50(1): 71-80.; Heip, C., Basford, D., Craeymeersch, J.A., Dewarumez, J.-M., Dorjes, J., de Wilde, P., Duineveld, G., Eleftheriou, A., Herman, P.M.J., Niermann, U., Kingston, P., Kunitzer, A., Rachor, E., Rumohr, H. (1992) Trends in biomass, density and diversity of North Sea macrofauna., ICES Journal of Marine Science, 49(1): 13-22.

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