Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea

Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea. They dataset was digitised at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences; Marine Ecology Division; Fishery Biology section. The Historical quantitative benthos grab samples from the Southern Baltic Sea data contains two main parts: Polish and German data. Polish data are from:

Demel/Mankowski 1951 Demel/Mulicki 1954: Quantitative investigations on the biological bottom productivity of the South Baltic Mulicki/Demel 1951-1955 Mulicki/Zmudzinski 1956-1957 Okolotowicz 1983: Assessment of pollution in the Bay of Gdansk from macrozoobenthos Ostrowski 1968-1969 Ostrowski 1972 Ostrowski 1973 Ostrowski 1974 Ostrowski 1976 Thulin 1922: Bottenboniteringar i södra östersjön i samband med fisktralninger Tulkki 1965 Zmudzinski 1971 Zmudzinski 1972 Zmudzinski 1973 Zmudzinski 1974 Zmudzinski/Ostrowski 1975.

The reconstructed German data are:

"Hagmeier 1925" Basis of the distribution records: Die Arbeiten mit dem Petersenschen Bodengreifer auf der Ostseefahrt im April 1925 "Hagmeier 1930" Basis of the distribution records: Die Bodenfauna der Ostsee im April 1929 nebst einigen Vergleichen mit April 1925 und Juli 1926 "Hertling 1928" Basis of the distribution records: Untersuchung über die Ernährung von Meeresfischen (zu: Hagmeier: Die Ostseefahrt im Juli 1926) "Kühlmorgen-Hille 1952-1953" Basis of the distribution records: FIELDWORK "Kühlmorgen-Hille 1961-1965" Basis of the distribution records: FIELDWORK "Löwe 1957" Basis of the distribution records: FIELDWORK: Die Sonderstellung der Saßnitz-Rinne in biologischer und fischereilicher Hinsicht "Petersen 1913" Basis of the distribution records: The animal communities of the sea-bottom and their importance for marine zoogeography "Schulz 1973" Basis of the distribution records: Biologische Untersuchungen während des internationalen Ostseejahres 1969/70