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Macrobenthic species of the Eastern South Pacific
Citation
Gallardo, V.A., Palma, M. 2005. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3739

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Description
In the Humboldt Current System a rich fauna of soft-bottom communities inhabits the continental margin. This dataset contains macrobenthic specimens collected during the MinOx cruise (Oxygen Minimum Zone cruise) at northern Chile in March 2000 and the Chilean-German expedition SONNE carried out in 2001 along the Chilean coast. more

In the Humboldt Current System a rich fauna of soft-bottom communities inhabits the continental margin in contact with low-oxygen equatorial subsurface waters, and low-salinity, well-oxygenated intermediate Antarctic waters. The collection of specimens comes from the MinOx cruise (Oxygen Minimum Zone cruise) at northern Chile in March 2000 and the Chilean-German expedition SONNE carried out in 2001 along the Chilean coast. These studies allowed an extensive examination of these communities and their habitats. The identified species were from specimens collected across the continental margin of Chile (20º-42ºS). Bathymetrically, the samples were collected from different sampling sites over the shelf and continental slope, covering a depth range from 20 to 2000 m, from sediments inside the Oxygen Minima Zone (OMZ: <0.5 ml/l-1) and beneath the OMZ. The polychaetes were the numerically dominant group on all area and depth, followed by the peracáridos crustaceans and small molluscs. This collection includes some new species and many new records by the bathyal zone.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal

Contributor
Universidad de Concepción, more

Related datasets
Published in:
ESPOBIS: Tropical and Subtropical Eastern South Pacific Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Palma, M. et al. (2005). Macrobenthic animal assemblages of the continental margin off Chile (22° to 42°S). J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 85(2): 233-245. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025315405011112h, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-12-10
Information last updated: 2012-12-10
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