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Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthos Citation Kendall M., 1996: Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthos. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/533 Contact: Kendall, Mike Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description Samples of the macrobenthic fauna of soft sediments were collected from around Svalbard during the 1991 Arctic EPOS cruise of RVPolarstern more Although faunal variability could be related to sediment granulometry and depth, all stations to the south and east of the Archipelago lay within the broadly defined central Barents Sea community. In this community, (alfa-diversity was variable and sampled between 77 and 337 m showed no clear relationship to depth. Diversity in the area close to the polar front was notably high, rarefaction predicting that 43 ± 5.5 species might occur in a sample of 201 individuals. k-Dominance plots suggested that muddy sand communities around Sval- bard were no less diverse than similar assemblages in the North Sea. Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Benthos Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Arctic environment, Macrobenthos, ANE, Norway, Svalbard, EurOBIS calculated BBOX Geographical coverage ANE, Norway, Svalbard [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 10,7333; MinLat: 77,2 - MaxLong: 32,9333; MaxLat: 81,45 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 1991 Parameters Area of sample {sampled area} from the bed [BODC] Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Density Methodology Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Density: Benthic box-core sampling of 0.1m² Benthic sediment samples of 0.1m²are subsampled from a 0.25m² box-corer Contributors Related datasets Publication Based on this dataset Kendall, M.A. (1996). Are Arctic soft-sediment macrobenthic communities impoverished? Polar Biol. 16: 393-399, more Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research Release date: 2005-08-30 Metadatarecord created: 2005-06-14 Information last updated: 2024-07-08 | ||||
