Pieck, Daniela; Schwalfenberg, Kai; Thölen, Claudia; Weyel, Niklas; Hillebrand, Helmut; Kleyer, Michael; Lõhmus, Kertu; Wollschläger, Jochen; Zielinski, Oliver; Badewien, Thomas Henry (2026): Continuous salinity observations at station BEFmate_S3pio, 2019-03 to 2023-09 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.989546, In: Pieck, D et al. (2026): Continuous salinity observations within DynaCom experimental islands and saltmarsh enclosed plots at different elevation levels, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2019-03 to 2023-09 [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.989537
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Published: 2026-01-20 • DOI registered: 2026-02-18
Abstract:
Data presented here were collected between 2019-03 and 2023-09 at station BEFmate_S3pio within the research unit DynaCom (Spatial community ecology in highly dynamic landscapes: From island biogeography to metaecosystems, https://uol.de/dynacom/ ) involving the Universities of Oldenburg, Göttingen, and Münster, the iDiv Leipzig and the Nationalpark Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer. Experimental islands and saltmarsh enclosed plots were established in the back-barrier tidal flat and in the saltmarsh zone of the island of Spiekeroog (Germany). Salinity at different elevation zones was measured using conductivity loggers deployed in dip wells within experimental islands as well as in the saltmarsh enclosed plots. Measurements were obtained using HOBO U24 Conductivity Logger U24-002-C (Onset Computer Corporation, Bourne, MA/USA). All devices were pre-calibrated by the manufacturer. Logged data were retrieved in the field using a Hobo Underwater Shuttle (U-DTW-1) and were read out with the HOBOware Pro (V3.7.28) software. Salinity was derived in HOBOware Pro using temperature-dependent, nonlinear seawater conductivity compensation following the Practical Salinity Scale (PSS-78). Subsequent data processing was done using MATLAB (R2024b). Post-processing and quality control included (a) the removal of data covering maintenance activities, (b) the removal of implausible values using fixe thresholds (salinity > 40 psu and < 5 psu; temperature > 35 °C and < -5 °C), c) an outlier detection using the Hampel filter method, and (d) visual checks. Identified outliers were removed and synchronously removed across all associated parameters (temperature and salinity).
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Zielinski, Oliver; Meier, Daniela; Kleyer, Michael; Hillebrand, Helmut (2017): Continuous porewater salinity observations within BEFmate artificial islands and saltmarsh control plots, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2015-05 to 2017-04 [dataset publication series]. Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877266
References:
Balke, Thorsten; Lõhmus, Kertu; Hillebrand, Helmut; Zielinski, Oliver; Haynert, Kristin; Meier, Daniela; Hodapp, Dorothee; Minden, Vanessa; Kleyer, Michael (2017): Experimental salt marsh islands: A model system for novel metacommunity experiments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 198, 288-298, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2017.09.021
Zielinski, Oliver; Meier, Daniela; Lõhmus, Kertu; Balke, Thorsten; Kleyer, Michael; Hillebrand, Helmut (2018): Environmental conditions of a salt-marsh biodiversity experiment on the island of Spiekeroog (Germany). Earth System Science Data, 10(4), 1843-1858, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1843-2018
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German Research Foundation (DFG), grant/award no. 379417748: FOR 2716: Spatial community ecology in highly dynamic landscapes: from island biogeography to metaecosystems
Coverage:
Latitude: 53.761908 * Longitude: 7.723308
Date/Time Start: 2019-03-28T09:20:00 * Date/Time End: 2023-09-04T09:40:00
Minimum DEPTH, water: 0.5 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 0.5 m
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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| 1 | Type of study | Study type | Badewien, Thomas Henry | |||
| 2 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Badewien, Thomas Henry | Geocode – UTC | ||
| 3 | DEPTH, water | Depth water | m | Badewien, Thomas Henry | Geocode | |
| 4 | Salinity | Sal | Badewien, Thomas Henry | Conductivity logger, HOBO, U24-002-C [SN: 10599255] | ||
| 5 | Temperature, water | Temp | °C | Badewien, Thomas Henry | Conductivity logger, HOBO, U24-002-C [SN: 10599255] |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 3 (ProcLevel3)
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