Description
The soft bottom macrobenthic communities of Penobscot Bay, Maine were sampled in June and July 1982 in order to provide an environmental benchmark. Forty-nine subtidal stations were occupied using a 0.1 m2 Smith-McIntyre grab. Depths ranged from 9 to 126 m. Subsamples were taken for grain size, CHN, trace metal and hydrocarbon analyses. The samples were sieved on a 1.0 mm screen and the fauna removed and identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible. The results yielded 226 putative species. Density ranged from 80 to 18,430/m2 with a mean of 3,475/m2.
Data Records
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Larsen, P.F., A.C. Johnson and A. Pugh. 2010. The Macrobenthos of Penobscot Bay, Maine. Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Consulted on http://www.iobis.org on
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
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Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
External data
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| Online dataset | http://iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/1569 UTF-8 HTML |
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| Metadata | http://www.vliz.be/imis/iobis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=4008 UTF-8 HTML |
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Geographic Coverage
Penobscot Bay, Maine
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [43.95, -69.11], North East [44.5, -68.66] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1982-01-01 / 1982-12-31 |
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Additional Metadata
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| Alternative Identifiers | 929eb10b-732f-4247-b899-4e3e5681cb4b |
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| https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=mbenthos_penobscotbay |