bmdc.be:dataset:2680 English UTF-8 Dataset Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Direction opérationnelle Milieux naturels (DO Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN), Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN), Operationelle Direktion Natürliche Umwelt (OD Natur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien bmdc@naturalsciences.be https://www.bmdc.be http Point of contact 2025-12-03T16:08:25.070+01:00 Geographic information -- Metadata ISO 19115:2003/19139 http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258 EPSG WinMon.BE - partim: Monitoring the fauna colonising artificial hard substrates in Belgian wind farms WinMon.BE – partim: Monitoring van de aangroeifauna van de artificiële harde substraten in Belgische windmolenparken 2021-12-16T17:23:03+01:00 Creation 2022-01-04T10:20:12+01:00 Revision 2025-12-03T16:08:25.070+01:00 Publication Digital Object Identifier 2016-05-19 https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2680 Belgian Marine Data Centre bmdc.be:dataset:2680 This dataset is composed of the following sources: Kerckhof F., Rumes B., Degraer S. (2021). Fouling fauna on offshore wind turbines and scour protection layers in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. Long term monitoring of the fauna colonising turbines and scour protection layers in Belgian offshore wind farms started in 2008. The monitoring focuses on monopile foundations from the Belwind offshore wind park, and on jacket and gravity based foundations from the C-Power park. During the first two years, the sampling occurred seasonally and across various depths of the selected foundations. Later, the samples were collected once a year in summer or autumn, at approximately 15 m depth on the foundations and from the scour protection layers. In BelWind, four monopile foundations were sampled through the monitoring period, but not simultaneously. In C-Power, the gravity-based turbine D5 was sampled through the entire duration of the monitoring, except in 2016 when samples were taken from D6. The jacket foundation (E1) from C-Power was sampled only once (one year after installation). The sample size was 0.0625 m2 and samples were deposited in a plastic bag. The scour protection layer stones were collected manually by divers. All samples were preserved in buffered 4% formalin. In the laboratory, the samples were extracted using a 1-mm sieve and were identified and where possible, all species counted. For most colonial species we accounted for presence only. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN) Natur) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien info@naturalsciences.be https://www.naturalsciences.be http Owner Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Direction opérationnelle Milieux naturels (DO Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN), Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN), Operationelle Direktion Natürliche Umwelt (OD Natur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien bmdc@naturalsciences.be https://www.bmdc.be http Custodian Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN) Natur) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien info@naturalsciences.be https://www.naturalsciences.be http Publisher Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Marine Ecology and Management (MARECO) 3e en 23e Linieregimentsplein, Block S, 1st floor, 8400 OOSTENDE, Belgium odnature@naturalsciences.be https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/do/533 http Author offshore wind farm wind turbine scour protection layer fouling fauna Species distribution Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance) Theme European Legislation Identifier fouling growth wind power station Theme GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3 2021-12-06 Publication 4.2.3 Other restrictions https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Other restrictions No limitations on public access. 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Unclassified Text table English oceans true 2.78678 2.978509 51.544833 51.688735 true Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone 2008-09-12 2019-08-28 application/vnd.ms-excel Unknown Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Direction opérationnelle Milieux naturels (DO Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN), Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN), Operationelle Direktion Natürliche Umwelt (OD Natur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien bmdc@naturalsciences.be https://www.bmdc.be http Custodian application/vnd.ms-excel Unknown 0.835351 https://www.bmdc.be/NODC/ditsAttach/datasource/7235/20211222_094825CB_BEAST_belgianData.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Fouling fauna on offshore wind turbines and scour protection layers in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. Kerckhof F., Rumes B., Degraer S. An HTTP link to download this dataset in Excel Download https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2680 DOI Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Dataset Samples were collected by scientific divers, organisms were sieved over an 1 mm-sieve, identified and counted. For colonial organisms, we accounted for presence only. Data were stored as excel files, taxonomy was checked using the World Register of Marine Species (WORMS). All species name are associated with an Aphia ID. Sample locations where graphically checked. Data were ingested in Critterbase using the Critterbase ingestion tool, and associated with similar datasets from The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark.