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Meiofauna from Lynher estuary in microcosms with contaminated sediment from the Fal estuary
Citation
Somerfield, P.J. & Austen, M. (1993). Meiofauna from Lynher estuary in microcosms with contaminated sediment from the Fal estuary. Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), UK. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/706
Contact: McEvoy, Andrea
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Experimental data - sediment from Fal estuary (field-contaminated with heavy metals) seeded with meiofauna from Lynher estuary in microcosms more

A laboratory microcosm experiment was conducted to study the relationship between the nematode community structure and contaminated field sediments.
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Experimental research, Meiobenthos, ANE, British Isles, England, Cornwall, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda
Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, England, Cornwall [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -4,2445; MinLat: 50,3667 - MaxLong: -4,2445; MaxLat: 50,3667 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
November 1992
October 1993 - 1993
Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]
Parameter
Count of Nematoda
Contributors
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), more, data owner, data creator
McEvoy, Andrea
Somerfield, Paul
Austen, Melanie
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database
Publication
Based on this dataset
Austen, M.C.; Somerfield, P.J. (1997). A community level sediment bioassay applied to an estuarine heavy metal gradient. Mar. Environ. Res. 43(4): 315-328
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-17
Information last updated: 2010-02-08
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