Building a database for long-term monitoring of benthic macrofauna in the Pertuis-Charentais (2004-2014).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Long-term benthic monitoring is rewarding in terms of science, but labour-intensive, whether in the field, the laboratory, or behind the computer. Building and managing databases require multiple skills, including consistency over time as well as organisation via a systematic approach. Here, we introduce and share our spatially explicit benthic database, comprising 11 years of benthic data. It is the result of intensive benthic sampling that has been conducted on a regular grid (259 stations) covering the intertidal mudflats of the Pertuis-Charentais (Marennes-Oléron Bay and Aiguillon Bay). Samples were taken by foot or by boats during winter depending on tidal height, from December 2003 to February 2014. The present dataset includes abundances and biomass densities of a

SUBMITTER: Philippe AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5345053 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature