Data integration for European marine biodiversity research: Creating a database on benthos and plankton to study large-scale patterns and long-term changes

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 644, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Vandepitte, Leen ^a   Vanhoorne, Bart ^a   Kraberg, Alexandra ^b   Anisimova, Natalie ^c   Antoniadou, Chryssanthi ^d   Araújo, Rita ^e   Bartsch, Inka ^b   Beker, Beatriz ^f   Benedetti Cecchi, Lisandro ^g   Bertocci, Iacopo ^g   Cochrane, Sabine ^h   Cooper, Keith ⁱ   Craeymeersch, Johan ^j   Christou, Epaminondas ^k   Crisp, Dennis J ^l   Dahle, Salve ^h   de Boissier, Marilyse ^f   de Kluijver, Mario ^m   Denisenko, Stanislav ⁿ   de Vito, Doris ^o   Duineveld, Gerard ^p   Escaravage, Vincent ^p   Fleischer, Dirk ^q   Fraschetti, Simona ^o   Giangrande, Adriana ^o   Heip, Carlo ^p,r   Hummel, Herman ^p   Janas, Urszula ^s   Karez, Rolf ^t   Kedra, Monika ^u   Kingston, Paul ^v   Kuhlenkamp, Ralph ^w   Libes, Maurice ^f   Martens, Peter ^b   Mees, Jan ^a   Mieszkowska, Nova ^l   Mudrak, Stella ^s   Munda, Ivka ^x   Orfanidis, Sotiris ^y   Orlando Bonaca, Martina ^z   Palerud, Rune ^h   Rachor, Eike ^b   Reichert, Katharina ^b   Rumohr, Heye ^q   Schiedek, Doris ^aa   Schubert, Philipp ^q   Sistermans, Wil C H ^p   Pinto, Isabel Sousa ^e   Southward, Alan J ^l   Terlizzi, Antonio ^o   Tsiaga, Evagelia ^y   van Beusekom, Justus E E ^b   Vanden Berghe, Edward ^a,ab   Warzocha, Jan ^ac   Wasmund, Norbert ^ad   Weslawski, Jan Marcin ^u   Widdicombe, Claire ^ae   Wlodarska Kowalczuk, Maria ^u   Zettler, Michael L ^ad   more..

^a Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee   (Belgium)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO)   (Russian Federation)

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^f STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^h NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH   (Norway)

ⁱ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^j WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^k INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^l THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁿ ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^p NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^q GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^r ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^s UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^t State Agency for Agriculture Environment and Rural Areas   (Germany)

^u INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^v HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^w Phycomarin   (Germany)

^x ANTON MELIK GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^y INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^z NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^aa NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^ab RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^ad LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^ae PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Biogeography; Data acquisition; Macrobenthos; Plankton; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BALTIC SEA; DATA INTEGRATION; DATA SETS; DATA SOURCE; LONG-TERM CHANGES; MACROBENTHOS; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; NORTH SEA; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; RARE SPECIES; ROCKY SHORE; SAMPLING LOCATION; SCALE PATTERN; SOFT-BOTTOM; SPECIES ASSEMBLAGE; STANDARDISATION; TEMPORAL SCALE;

BIODIVERSITY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA HANDLING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; OCEAN HABITATS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; TAXONOMIES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DATABASE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PLANKTON; QUALITY CONTROL; ROCKY SHORE; SOFT-BOTTOM ENVIRONMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 75549090582     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0108-z     Document Type: Review

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