Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) larger mobile macrofaunal abundance, biomass and species richness from fyke netting in mudflat habitats

The dataset details larger mobile fish and macrofaunal abundance across six intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013, sampled using fyke nets. The data provide a quantitative measure of larger mobile invertebrate and fish species present in fyke nets caught over two executive tidal cycles at three sites in Essex, South East England and three more sites in Morecambe Bay, North West England. At each site, 22 sampling quadrats were placed on the mud flat covering 4 spatial scales. At each of these, unbaited fyke nets were deployed perpendicular to the shore over two tidal cycles. Upon removal, the species were identified to species level and individuals counted. For each species wet weight (g) was calculated. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/778ac3e5-a796-46a0-8390-0b6527598d8b

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Metadata Language: English (en)

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2017-09-05

Dataset Reference Date (): 2013-08-01

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/778ac3e5-a796-46a0-8390-0b6527598d8b

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/778ac3e5-a796-46a0-8390-0b6527598d8b

Other citation details: Bach, L.L., Emmerson, M. (2017). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) larger mobile macrofaunal abundance, biomass and species richness from fyke netting in mudflat habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/778ac3e5-a796-46a0-8390-0b6527598d8b

Queen's University Belfast - Dr. Mark Emmerson

Queen's University Belfast - Bach, L.L.

Queen's University Belfast - Emmerson, M.

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Queen's University Belfast

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Biodiversity
macrofauna
mudflat
benthic
spatial scale
species
Fyke net
European flounder
Common shore crab
CBESS
BESS

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bach, L.L., Emmerson, M. (2017). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) larger mobile macrofaunal abundance, biomass and species richness from fyke netting in mudflat habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/778ac3e5-a796-46a0-8390-0b6527598d8b

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Begin date: 2013-01-01

End date: 2013-08-01

Code: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each mudflat and saltmarsh site using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum). At each of these, one fyke net was deployed perpendicular to the shore and over the course of two tidal cycles. The fyke net was a five hoop double fyke net (mesh size: 22mm knot to knot, 8m leader, 0.5m hoop).

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Metadata Date: 2023-11-07T16:38:32

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