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

Svitlana Kovalyshyna1, Oleg Kachalov1, Oleksandr Neprokin1

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

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

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

Meiobenthos data: species composition, abundance (ind/m2), biomass (mg/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_meiobenthos

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Unranked: Group Eumeiobenthos, Pseudomeiobenthos

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/). 10 samples of meiobenthos were taken during the National Monitoring Study in 2019. Samples were collected using a hand corer with the area of 0.002 m2 pushed into sediments up to 5 cm depth. Three to five subsamples from each corer were taken. The material was transferred to a series of benthic sieves with the mesh size of 1 mm, 0.5 mm, and 32 μm respectively. For washing filtered sea water (through 40 μm gauze) was gently poured over the samples. The samples were fixed with 4% formaldehyde buffered with sea water and subsequently stained with a mixed solution of 10 ml of pure ethanol and 0.1 g of "Rose Bengal" (3 drops per 100 ml of sample) prepared in advance. The samples were transferred to the laboratory for identification and quantification. The taxonomic analysis was carried out at the microscope “MBS-10” with maximum magnification of 100x. 
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 Meiobenthos, National Monitoring Study 2019, EMBLAS Plus Project, EMBLAS Plus Project
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://gp.sea.gov.ua:8082/ipt/archive.do?r=nms_ua_2019_meiobenthos
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