Etang de Berre (station 19, March 1973)
Basic information
Sample name: Etang de Berre (station 19, March 1973)

Reference: G. Stora and A. Arnoux. 1983. Effects of large freshwater diversions on benthos of a Mediterranean lagoon. Estuaries 6(2):115-125 [ER 3052]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 43° 27' N, 5° 7' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Geography comments: "40 km west of Marseille"
coordinate based on Étang de Berre

Environment
Habitat: lagoon

Protection: unprotected

Substrate: other marine

Habitat comments: "the largest French Mediterranean lagoon, with... a maximum depth of 9.5 m"

Methods
Life forms: clams

Sample size: 295 individuals

Years: 1973

Sampling comments: "samples were collected with a small orange peel grab from October 1972 to January 1976 at different stations around the lagoon (Fig. 3) located in 3.5 to 4 m of water" and "a sediment volume of 4.5 dm3" was taken in each
sieving method is not discussed

Metadata
Sample number: 3314

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-05-19 16:08:40

Modified: 2019-05-19 06:09:20

Abundance distribution
3 species
0 singletons
total count 295
geometric series index: 3.7
Fisher's α: 0.465
geometric series k: 0.0854
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1302
Shannon's H: 0.2791
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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