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Craig Smith UHM USP FOODBANCS 1 Macrofauna data Citation Glover, A.G., Smith, C.R., Mincks, S.L., Sumida, P.Y., Thurber, A., 2008. Macrofaunal abundance and composition on theWest Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf: evidence for a sediment ‘food bank’ and similarities to deep-sea habitats. Deep-Sea Research II, 55 (2491–2501). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/2407 Availability: Unrestricted for academic use The data are freely available for research and education purposes. Usage acknowledgement is usually expected Description Data for benthic macrofauna (retained on a 300 micrometer seive) collected in box cores from the FOODBANCS 1 project. During FOODBANCS 1, box core samples were collected and sorted during five cruises (1999-2001) to 3 stations along the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf. The project and data collection are described in Smith et al. (2008). Scope Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Antarctic waters, Antarctic zone, Biodiversity, Community composition, Fauna, Marine invertebrates, Zoobenthos, Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Aplacophora, Bivalvia, Clitellata, Echinoidea, Gastropoda, Holothuroidea, Malacostraca, Oligochaeta, Ophiuroidea, Polychaeta, Pycnogonida, Scaphopoda Geographical coverage Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage November 1999 - March 2001 Taxonomic coverage Parameter Presence of biota Contributors Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: field survey Metadatarecord created: 2010-04-12 Information last updated: 2010-04-12 | ||||
