Details of Macroinvertebrate Taxa Counts Associated with Experimental Seaweed Dropper Replicates, Schelphoek, The Netherlands, North East Atlantic Ocean 2018-2020 (GENIALG Project Work Package 6.1)

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Title of datasetMacroinvertebrate Taxa Counts Associated with Experimental Seaweed Dropper Replicates, Schelphoek, The Netherlands, North East Atlantic Ocean 2018-2020 (GENIALG Project Work Package 6.1)
Narrative summary of datasetList of macroinvertebrate taxa associated with experimental dropper replicates. Collected at two test seaweed farms in The Netherlands. Samples collected as part of the GENIALG project (project ID: 727892, GENIALG - GENetic diversity exploitation for Innovative Macro-ALGal biorefinery, http://genialgproject.eu/). GENIALG was funded by the European Union Horizon2020 programme. The remit of the work was assessing the environmental footprint and ecosystem services provided by seaweed aquaculture in Europe to provide best practice advice to industry. A total of twelve seaweed lines (droppers of 2m length) were deployed in the farm at November 21st 2018. Six lines were located on the outer edge of the farm and six lines were located in the middle of the farm. At both locations three lines were seeded with seaweed and three lines were left empty. The ropes were collected on the 24th of April by gently removing the ropes from the water and directly transferring them into plastic bags. On May 14th 2020 droppers were randomly selected and cut from the longlines and processed following the same protocols.
Summary of processing methodologyNumerical abundance for species recorded in experimental seaweed droppers as part of GENIALG Project Report available from http://genialgproject.eu/
Supporting documentationFariñas-Franco, J.M., Jansen, H., Santa maria San Segundo, J., Coca Tagarro, I., Kennedy, T., Nash, S., Nielsen, D., Fort, A., Sulpice, R. (2021) Interaction and impact of cultivated macroalgae and growing structures on faunal community assemblages and surrounding ecosystems. Project GenialG - GENetic diversity exploitation for Innovative macro-ALGal biorefinery, EC Grant agreement no: 727892 (Jose M. Fariñas-Franco, Ed), Available from https://genialgproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/D6.2-Deliverable-Report_Interaction-and-impact-of-cultivated-algae-and-growing-structures-on-faunal-community-assemblages.pdf
Start date2018-05-08
End date2019-12-29

Responsible organisations

CountryIreland
Organisation nameGalway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Role of organisationPublisher
CountryNetherlands
Organisation nameWageningen Marine Research (Yerseke)
Role of organisationDataset Holding Organisation
CountryNetherlands
Organisation nameWageningen Marine Research (Yerseke)
Role of organisationOriginator of Dataset

Dataset availability

Original dataset download linkhttps://cloud.emodnet-ingestion.eu/index.php/s/VA2dFmsDv4NzqJv
Dataset formatDatabase
Public accessNo limitations
License for useCC-BY 4.0
TypeDataset

Locations

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Latitude north boundary51.696771064699
Longitude east boundary3.8212346249518
Latitude south boundary51.686661963009
Longitude west boundary3.7999486142096
Sea areaEastern Scheldt
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

Data types, collection and processing

Observation typeMacroalgae and seagrass
Biota abundance, biomass and diversity
Aquaculture
ParameterMacroalgae and seagrass taxonomy-related counts
Instrument typeoptical microscopes

Process information

Submitting organisationGalway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Submission identifier (UUID)30e7021f-2d01-4acb-bd19-9b11a90747aa
Date of dataset creation2021-07-26
Date of metadata creation2021-07-30
Date of metadata latest revision2021-11-30
Date of publishing2021-12-16
Processing data centreMarine Institute
Summary record-ID970