datatype: Zoobenthos
abstract: National monitoring data from the seas surrounding Sweden.
description: Samples are often taken with a sediment graber that is lowered from a boat and collect a known amount of bottom substrate. The material is filtered and the animals present in the sample is preserved for later to be determined, counted and weighed. For each species data is presented on the number of counted individuals in the sample (# Counted), number per bottom area (Abundance), weight of the organisms in the sample (wet weight), weight per bottom surface (wet weight/area). Some organisms is only reported that they occurred in a sample (Non- Quantized observation), but not how many they were. The bottom sediment condition is also often reported.
originator: UMSC
data_holding_centre: Swedish National Oceanographic Data Centre at Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
data_distributor: Swedish National Oceanographic Data Centre at Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
database_reference: SHARK
internet_access: http://sharkweb.smhi.se, http://sharkdata.se
contact: 
discipline: Marine biology
address: Sven Källfelts gata 15
city: Västra Frölunda
postal code: SE-426 71
phone: +46-(0)11-495 80 00
email: shark@smhi.se
measuring area type: point
coordinate system: WGS84
platform class: ship
access constraints: unrestricted
citation: The data used in this (project/report/etc) has been downloaded from the Swedish National Oceanographic Data Centre at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Data has been collected within Swedish coordinated marine monitoring by (originator/orderer).
dataset_name: SHARK_Zoobenthos_1983_1997_UMSC
dataset_category: Zoobenthos
dataset_version: 2024-03-05
dataset_file_name: SHARK_Zoobenthos_1983_1997_UMSC_version_2024-03-05.zip
min_year: 1983
max_year: 1997
min_date: 1983-06-13
max_date: 1997-05-23
min_longitude: 19.674167
max_longitude: 19.958333
min_latitude: 63.311667
max_latitude: 63.574667
parameters#0.parameter: Bottom water temperature
parameters#0.unit: C
parameters#1.parameter: Wet weight
parameters#1.unit: g/analysed sample fraction
parameters#2.parameter: BQIm
parameters#2.unit: index/sample
parameters#3.parameter: Sediment colour code
parameters#3.unit: Rock Color Chart
parameters#4.parameter: Dry weight
parameters#4.unit: g/analysed sample fraction
parameters#5.parameter: Bottom water dissolved oxygen
parameters#5.unit: mg/l
parameters#6.parameter: Redox potential
parameters#6.unit: mV
parameters#7.parameter: Loss on ignition
parameters#7.unit: % dw
parameters#8.parameter: # counted
parameters#8.unit: ind/analysed sample fraction
parameters#9.parameter: Sediment water content
parameters#9.unit: % ww
parameters#10.parameter: Bottom water salinity
parameters#10.unit: 
parameters#11.parameter: Abundance
parameters#11.unit: ind/m2
parameters#12.parameter: H2S smell
parameters#12.unit: