Realm: Marine
Climate: Temperate/Tropical
Biome: Temperate shelf and seas ecoregions
Central latitude: 34.142351
Central longitude: -118.632839
Duration: 14 years, from 1991 to 2006

111354 records

4415 distinct species

Across the time series Nemertea is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

Samples were live-sieved in the field on 0.5mm wire mesh sieves and allmaterial retained on the screen was preserved with 10% buffered formalin withRose Bengal dye. In the laboratory these previously fixed samples werere-sieved and transferred to a 70%-ethanol solution. All benthic macro-infaunaretained on the 0.5mm screen were identified to the lowest practical taxonomiclevel. usually species. Unit of abundance = AggregatedPresence, Unit of biomass = NA

Citation(s)

"National Benthic Infaunal Database (NBID)" (2003). NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CCEHBR/Coastal Ecology Program. NOAA's Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS). Available at: https://data.noaa.gov/dataset/national-benthic-infaunal-database-nbid, accessed 2012.