In:
Earth System Science Data, Copernicus GmbH, Vol. 12, No. 1 ( 2020-02-10), p. 293-297
Abstract:
Abstract. Understanding how the plants and animals that live in the
sea floor vary in their spatial patterns of diversity and abundance is
fundamental to gaining insight into the role of biodiversity in maintaining
ecosystem functioning in coastal ecosystems, as well as advancing the
modelling of species distributions under realistic assumptions. Yet, it is
virtually unknown how the relationships between abundance patterns and
different biotic and environmental processes change depending on spatial
scales, which is mainly due to a lack of data. Within the project Spatial
Organization of Species Distributions: Hierarchical and Scale-Dependent
Patterns and Processes in Coastal Seascapes at the National Institute for
Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand we collected
multi-scale and high-resolution data on macrobenthic biodiversity. We found
146 species dominated by bivalves, polychaetes, and crustaceans
(〉500 µm) that live hidden in marine sandflats and
collected point measurements of important environmental variables (sediment
grain-size distributions, chlorophyll a concentration, organic content, and
visible sandflat parameters) in three large intertidal harbours (Kaipara,
Tauranga, and Manukau). In each harbour we sampled 400 points for
macrobenthic community composition and abundances, as well as the full set
of environmental variables. Using an elaborate sampling design, we were able
to cover scales from 30 cm to a maximal extent of 1 km. All data
and extensive metadata are available from the data publisher PANGAEA via the
persistent identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903448 (Kraan et al.,
2019).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1866-3516
DOI:
10.5194/essd-12-293-2020
DOI:
10.5194/essd-12-293-2020-supplement
Language:
English
Publisher:
Copernicus GmbH
Publication Date:
2020
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2475469-9
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