CEFAS298f6cc9-19f2-4c6d-b4e5-60adbd377fd3 English dataset Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk pointOfContact 2022-01-05T11:18:17 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Sublittoral nematode and copepod assemblages from 12 sites around the UK coast from May 1997 to November 1999 2020-08-21 publication 2022-01-05 revision 2020-02-26 creation CEFAS20349 https://data.cefas.co.uk Data consists of presense data of nematode worms and copepods in the form of count data. Sampling was conducted from May 1997 to June 1999 in 12 sampling locations, 6 inshore (Burbo Bight, Swansea Bay, Off Plymouth, Off Thames, Tees inshore, Tyne inshore) and 6 offshore (Dundrum Bay, Cardigan Bay, Celtic Deep, Lyme Bay, Off Humber and Off Tyne) around the coast of the UK. Data including sediment granulometry and trace metal concentrations are also available. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk originator Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk custodian Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk distributor Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) data.manager@cefas.co.uk owner notPlanned Biodiversity Benthos Sediment Species GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Sediment Benthic boundary SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2010-05-18 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication data.gov.uk MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication otherRestrictions noLimitations otherRestrictions Public data - no limitations to reuse English biota -9.00 3.00 50.00 56.50 1997-05-01 1999-11-30 Delimited Geographic Information System Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/20349 Cefas Data Portal download The Cefas Data Portal contains metadata records and data sets available to download and connect to in support of our commitment to open science. Data is available in the following formats: CSV, ESRI Shapefile. The data can also be accessed via the WFS and WMS protocols. dataset INSPIRE Data Specification on Species Distribution – Technical Guidelines 2013-12-10 publication false See the referenced specification Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication true See the referenced specification All locations were sampled between February and May except the station 'off Thames' in 1999, which was sampled in November. With the exception of Cardigan Bay, the sampling depths of the offshore stations were significantly deeper than at inshore locations. Sediment samples were taken with the Bowers and Connelly Multicorer, which is designed to take four undisturbed sediment samples (23.76 cm2 surface area each) simultaneously. The corer was deployed four times at each site. From each deployment, one whole sediment core was retained for meiofauna analysis and the top 5 cm of another core from the same deployment was retained for particle size and chemical analyses (Schratzberger *et al.*, 2000). The depth of the sediment core obtained at each sampling site depends on the sediment compaction and the amount of weight loaded on the Multicorer. The depths of sediment cores collected at the inshore sites ranged from 3 to 13 cm, those sampled at the intermediate and offshore locations ranged from 4 to 20 cm (Schratzberger *et al.*, 2000). MEDIN 3.1.1