Measured environmental concentrations of copper and hazard quotients in the German Bight in summer from 1986 to 2021

Dataset

DOI

Data includes the measured environmental concentrations (MEC) of the summer copper (Cu) concentration in the German Bight from 1986 to 2021 (MUDAB database, https://geoportal.bafg.de/MUDABAnwendung/), including sampling points coordinates, year of sampling and Cu concentration. Additionally the Hazard quotient (HQ) is provided by dividing the MEC with the predicted no effect concentration (PNEC), defined as EC10 estimates from Crassostrea gigas embryos exposed for 48 h at 18°C and LC10 estimates from C. gigas larvae exposed for 24 h at 24°C, divided by an assessment factor (AF) of 5.

Source: Marine Environmental Data Base (MUDAB) (Federal Institute of Hydrology, BfG, 2024); Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), last accessed: 11 August 2024.---The detailed analytical methods applied within the monitoring program are provided directly by the MUDAB database. All copper concentration values were quality controlled and validated prior to integration in this dataset.

Identifier
DOI	https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.991546
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Related Identifier	IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2025.107376
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Provenance
Creator	Noetzel, Dominique Christian ; Colsoul, Bérenger ; Akcha, Farida; Briant, Nicolas ; Stavrakakis, Christophe; Pogoda, Bernadette (ORCID: 0000-0003-3997-426X); Le Roy, Jérémy; François, Virginie; Sokolova, Inna M
Publisher	PANGAEA
Publication Year	2026
Funding Reference	Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005910 Crossref Funder ID 3517685013 Restoration of the European Oyster in the German North Sea: Establishment of a sustainable oyster seed production for a long-term restoration program (PROCEED); Federal Ministry of Education and Research https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03F0910D https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=03F0910D DAM sustainMare - CREATE, University of Rostock; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 871108 doi:10.3030/871108 AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELlence in EUropean fish research 3.0 (AQUAEXCEL3.0)
Rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess	true

Representation
Resource Type	Dataset
Format	text/tab-separated-values
Size	8120 data points
Discipline	Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage	(-1.500W, 51.703S, 9.540E, 60.000N)
Temporal Coverage Begin	1986-06-03T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End	2021-06-22T00:00:00Z