Historical benthic dredge samples from the southern baltic and the North Sea (EUROBIS)

Historical benthic dredge samples from the southern baltic and the North Sea. This dataset was digitised at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology Division; Fishery Biology section. This dataset was reconstructed from german benthos data from LITERATURE -"Brandt 1893" Basis of the distribution records: Holsatia-Expedition 1887 "Die mit der Kurre oder der Dredge auf der Expedition gesammelten Tiere -"Heidrich 1902" Basis of the distribution records: Die Ostsee-Expedition 1901 des deutschen Seefischereivereins -"Möbius 1873" Basis of the distribution records: Die wirbellosen Thiere der Ostsee -"Möbius 1880" Basis of the distribution records: Die Untersuchungen der Danziger Bucht Part of the data was also reconstructed from museums collection: Ulrike Stein, Wolfgang Huckriede und H. Rumohr: Histroische Benthosdaten aus Nord- und Ostsee in den Jahren 1902-1912. Size reference: 7,087 distribution records [Source: The information provided in the summary was extracted from the MarBEF Data System at "http://www.marbef.org/data/eurobisproviders.php"]