Macrozoobenthos, National Monitoring Study 2019, EMBLAS Plus Project, EMBLAS Plus Project

Oleg Kachalov1, Oleksandr Neprokin1

1 Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES), 

Corresponding author(s): Oleg Kachalov, Oleksandr Neprokin (o.neprokin@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Oleg Kachalov Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES)

Abstract

Macrozoobenthos data: species composition, abundance (ind/m²), biomass (g/m²) collected during the National Monitoring Study (NMS_UA 2019) in the Ukrainian waters (North-Western part of the Black Sea) onboard the Vessel “Auguste Piccard”, (Ukraine) in August-October 2019

Keywords: Samplingevent

Project details

Project title: EMBLAS-Plus “EU-UNDP Project 'Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea' (EMBLAS-Plus)” (http://emblasproject.org/)
Personnel: Oleksandr Neprokin

Data published through GBIF: http://gp.sea.gov.ua:8082/ipt/resource?r=nms_ua_2019_macrozoobenthos

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Class: Anthozoa, Ascidiacea, Bivalvia, Gastropoda, Gymnolaemata, Hexanauplia, Holothuroidea, Insecta, Malacostraca, Ophiuroidea, Polychaeta, Rhabditophora

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: "Data collected within the EMBLAS-Plus “EU-UNDP Project 'Improving Environmental Monitoring in the Black Sea' (EMBLAS-Plus)” (http://emblasproject.org/). 31 samples taken in 19 coastal as well as shelf stations on the Ukrainian part (NMS UA). The distribution of stations on depth intervals was as follow:
• 0 - 9 m: 16 stations;
• 10 - 30 m:  3 stations;
• 31 - 41 m:  1 station.
The macrozoobenthos sampling followed the protocol described by Todorova & Konsulova (2005). Thus, all samples have been collected with a Van Veen grab with surface of 0.135 m2, washed through a 0.5 mm mesh size sieve, fixed with formaldehyde 4% buffered with seawater and finally stored in plastic jars. In laboratory, the organisms were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level.
Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses were performed on abundance and biomass datasets. Similarity pattern was examined (Clarke & Warwick 2001).
To define benthic communities and distinguish between groups, a complete linkage hierarchical clustering based on Bray-Curtis similarities (Clarke & Warwick 2001) applied to non-transformed data of mean biomass and abundance of each species has been used. To further investigate similarities and dissimilarities between clusters a SIMPER analysis (Clarke, 1993) was conducted."
Coordinates: 45°15'11.88''N and 46°37'37.92''N Latitude; 29°46'26.04''E and 31°43'27.12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: August 31, 2019 - October 16, 2019

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Macrozoobenthos, National Monitoring Study 2019, EMBLAS Plus Project, EMBLAS Plus Project
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://gp.sea.gov.ua:8082/ipt/archive.do?r=nms_ua_2019_macrozoobenthos
Publication date of data: 2023-11-06
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-10-23
Hierarchy level: Dataset