Mapping marine biodiversity in the algae belt, Norway

Torsten Hugo Struck

doi:10.15468/h775f2

Mapping marine biodiversity in the algae belt, Norway

Citation

Struck T H (2024). Mapping marine biodiversity in the algae belt, Norway. Version 1.2. University of Oslo. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/h775f2 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

The marine algae belt comprising kelp forests, seagrass meadows and rocky reefs with coralline red seaweeds is one of the most active primary-producing environments in the sea. It also harbors are great diversity of animals including sea squirts, ribbon worms, nick worms, serpulid worms, spionid worms and skeleton shrimps. The species of these groups occupy important ecological functions as herbivores, predators and filter-feeding organisms and can be sessile or agile as well as solitary or colonial. Many of these taxa include invasive species causing among others high economic damage in aquaculture and ship transportation due to biofouling. In this project, we conducted a field inventory and collect species of these taxa in Norway. Most of our records from this project (575 records) have been published in GBiF as part of the NHMO Invertebrate, DNA Bank Other invertebrate groups and DNA Bank Arthropod collections. However, 58 records were deposited in a different collection at NHMO as they do not belong to these three collections. By this dataset, these are publicly released separately to GBiF.

Sampling Description

Method steps

Taxonomic Coverages

N/A

Chordata
rank: phylum
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Didemnidae
rank: family
Ascidiacea
rank: class
Pyuridae
rank: family
Amphipoda
rank: order
Corellidae
rank: family
Caprellidae
rank: family
Malacostraca
rank: class
Styelidae
rank: family
Ascidiidae
rank: family
Cionidae
rank: family
Molgulidae
rank: family
Clavelinidae
rank: family
Stolidobranchia
rank: order
Aplousobranchia
rank: order
Phlebobranchia
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Norway

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Torsten Hugo Struck
originator
position: Professor
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern
Oslo
0318
NO
email: t.h.struck@nhm.uio.no
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3280-6239

Torsten Hugo Struck
metadata author
position: Professor
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern
Oslo
0318
NO
email: t.h.struck@nhm.uio.no
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3280-6239

Torsten Hugo Struck
user
email: t.h.struck@nhm.uio.no

Torsten Hugo Struck
administrative point of contact
position: Professor
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo
Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 1172 Blindern
Oslo
0318
NO
email: t.h.struck@nhm.uio.no
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3280-6239