Occurrence

Macrobenthos North Adriatic-ALPE ADRIA Project

Version 6.1 published by National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics on 12 May 2017 National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Publication date:
12 May 2017
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Description

Irregular monitoring of macrobenthos abundance and community composition collected in the Gulf of Trieste, from 3/1990 to 8/1993.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 8,419 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
8419
MeasurementOrFacts 
9926

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Aleffi F (2013): Macrobenthos North Adriatic-ALPE ADRIA Project. https://doi.org/10.6092/046b3834-9c72-4e2d-920f-8db346c90407

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

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Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

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Contacts

Floriana Aleffi
  • Originator
Researcher
Laboratorio di Biologia Marina (LBM)
Trieste
TS
IT
Marina Lipizer
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
Technologist
OGS (Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale)
Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42/C
34010 Trieste
TS
IT
+390402140310
Serena Fonda Umani
  • Principal Investigator
Professor
Univ. Trieste
Trieste
TS
IT

Geographic Coverage

The monitoring stations, located in the Gulf of Trieste in the northernmost part of the Adriatic Sea, have been monitored for 3 years.

Bounding Coordinates South West [45.5, 13.3], North East [45.75, 13.8]

Taxonomic Coverage

Macrobenthos

Superclass Ascidiacea
Class Gastropoda, Bivalvia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1990-03-20 / 1993-08-10

Project Data

No Description available

Title ALPE ADRIA Project
Funding ALPE ADRIA
Study Area Description The stations are located in the Gulf of Trieste in the northernmost part of the Adriatic Sea.
Design Description Irregular monitoring

The personnel involved in the project:

Floriana Aleffi
  • Principal Investigator

Sampling Methods

van Veen, 0.1 m2 grab sampler; 3 grabs have been performed

Study Extent Irregular sampling from 1990 to 1993.

Method step description:

  1. Grab sampling, sieving on 0.5 mm, sample fixed with buffered formaldehyde (4% final concentration). Data are average of the 3 grabs.

Additional Metadata