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Experimental effects of TBT on meiobenthic communities
Citation
Austen, M. & McEvoy, A. (1993). Experimental effects of TBT on meiobenthic communities. Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), UK. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/713
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
This dataset arises from probably the first study on the effects of TBT on meiobenthic communities. Microcosm experiments were conducted where meiobenthos is concentrated in TBT contaminated and uncontaminated sediments.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Experimental research, Meiobenthos, Meiofauna communities, ANE, British Isles, England, Cornwall, ANE, British Isles, England, Devon, Exe Estuary, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Nematoda

Geographical coverage
ANE, British Isles, England, Cornwall Stations [Marine Regions]
Rame Estuary
Lynher Estuary
ANE, British Isles, England, Devon, Exe Estuary [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -4,2493; MinLat: 50,3067 - MaxLong: -4,2445; MaxLat: 50,3828 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
September 1993

Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameter
Count of Nematoda

Contributors
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), moredata creatordata owner
Austen, Melanie
McEvoy, Andrea
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), moredata 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.; McEvoy, A. (1997). Experimental effects of tributyltin (TBT) contaminated sediment on a range of meiobenthic communities. Environ. Pollut. 96(3): 435-444

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-18
Information last updated: 2010-02-08
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