ChAOS Benthic Macrofaunal abundance and biomass data collected in the Arctic Ocean, summer 2017-2019
Benthic Macrofaunal abundance and biomass data collected during a series of ship-board sampling campaigns in the Barents Sea. As part of the NERC funded Changing Arctic Ocean programme, in July of 2017, 2018 and 2019, the RSS James Clark Ross followed a North-South transect at 30 degrees Longitude. In 2017 six stations were sampled (B3, B13, B14, B15, B16, B17); in 2018 seven stations were sampled (B3, B13, B14, Xs, B15, B16, B17); and in 2019 five stations were sampled (B3, B13, B14, B15, B16).
Macrofaunal samples were collected using a USNL corer (surface area 0.1m<sup>2</sup>). On recovery all faunal samples were fixed and preserved with 10% buffered formaldehyde solution. The faunal samples were transported to Plymouth Marine Laboratory where the fauna were extracted, identified to species level where possible using the most up to date literature available, and biomassed (blotted wet weight) to species level. A reference collection has been created containing an example of each taxon to ensure maximum quality control was maintained by the three analysts that conducted the species identification and for subsequent cruise data generated.
Funded by the NERC Changing Arctic Ocean Seafloor (ChAOS).
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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01600
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-01-11
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01600
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Biodiversity
- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Biomass
- EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology
- EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Environment Monitoring
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Microphytobenthos abundance
- Microphytobenthos biomass
- Zoobenthos dry weight biomass
- Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance
- Use limitation
- Data is released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Data is released under Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Oceans
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- Begin date
- 2017-06-30
- End date
- 2019-08-02
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- https://doi.org/10.5285/cdd5c23e-9413-1a68-e053-6c86abc0a384
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
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- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
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- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- No special comments
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01600 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-01-11
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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