Dataset

Historical benthos data from the Pre-deltaic Romanian Black Sea Coast in 1960

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The dataset comprises data on the substrate type, temperature, salinity and benthos from 58 samples colected in Danube front area in the period March 1960 - July 1960, (Sulina-Portita sector, Romanian Black Sea Coast). The sediment samples were taken with a Van-Veen grab, the sampling size is was - 0.1 m2. The samples have been preserved with 10% buffered formalin, then sieved through a 2 mm, 0.25 mm and 0.10 mm mesh sieve and subsequently stored in 70% ethanol. The database comprises taxonomic and quantitative data (individuals count, density and wet weight biomass per square meter) for 95 macrobenthic species and 10 supraspecific groups.

Citation: Teaca, A.; Begun, T.; Muresan, M.; National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology – GeoEcoMar, Romania (2016): Historical benthos data from the Pre-deltaic Romanian Black Sea Coast in 1960

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:48

URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=predeltaicblacksea_historicalbenthosdata_1960

Adrian Teaca
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology

Tatiana Begun
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology

Mihaela Muresan
National Research and Development Institute for Marine Geology and Geoecology

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

834
occurrence records
4,665
measurements and facts
104
taxa
82
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 834
100.0%
scientificNameID 1 3
0.5%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 29
3.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 26
3.1%
NO_MATCH 4
0.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data