Infaunal abundance & biomass from sediment grabs in Belfast Lough as part of a habitat mapping project in 2018

Dan Lear1, Data Team2

1 Marine Biological Association of the UK, Plymouth, United Kingdom; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Dan Lear (dassh.enquiries@MBA.ac.uk)

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Resource Citation

Lear D (2019): Infaunal abundance and biomass from sediment grabs in Belfast Lough as part of a habitat mapping project in 2018. v2. Marine Biological Association. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.17031/cpxuba https://doi.org/10.17031/cpxuba

Abstract

This dataset contains information on infaunal abundance & biomass from sediment grabs in Belfast Lough as part of a larger & ongoing habitat mapping project. The sediment & infaunal survey was carried out in January 2018 by AFBI and this dataset was integrated into the larger mapping project since 2012.  The project is joint with the British Geological Society and Belfast Harbour with the aim of mapping the seabed floor and updating it from more historical information. The seabed mapping was carried out on the White Ribbon vessel (British Geological society) using Kongsberg EM3002D multibeam and on the FPV Banríon Uladh using the same multibeam system. The benthic sampling in 2018 (this dataset) was carried out on board the RV Corystes using a day grab. Particle size analysis (PSA) was carried out and the infaunal samples were sent away to accredited taxonomic laboratories to be indentified. The most abundant species recorded was the echinoderm Amphiura filiformis and the most frequently recorded (present in all samples) was the hydrozoan sertulariidae.

Keywords: Samplingevent

General description

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Data published through GBIF: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=dasshdt00000395

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Infaunal abundance & biomass from sediment grabs in Belfast Lough as part of a habitat mapping project in 2018
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Distribution: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/archive.do?r=dasshdt00000395
Publication date of data: 2019-05-14
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-05-10
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