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ANDEEP-1: Antarctic deep-sea meiofauna
Citation
Martínez Arbizu, P. & Veit-Köhler, G. (2002). ANDEEP-1: Antarctic deep-sea meiofauna. Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg; Deutsches Zentrum fur Marine Biodiversitätsforschung (DZMB), Germany. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/982
Contact: Veit-Köhler, Gritta

Access data
Archived data

Archived file:
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
These data give - for the first time - an overview of the meiofauna that inhabits the slope and the abyssal plains in Antarctic waters to a depth of 5 200 m.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Biodiversity, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Deep sea, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Meiobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, PSW, Drake Passage, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -60,7355; MinLat: -61,7263 - MaxLong: -53,9545; MaxLat: -59,6582 [WGS84]
PSW, Drake Passage [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
28 January 2002 - 23 February 2002

Parameters
Carbon-to-nitrogen Ratio (C:N)
Chlorophyll a
Grain size distribution Methodology
Meiobenthos #/ Major taxa
Phaeopigments
Total organic matter (OM)
Grain size distribution: Coulter Counter LS particle size analyzer

Contributors
Senckenberg am Meer; German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research (DZMB), moredata creatordata owner
Martinez Arbizu, Pedro
Veit-Köhler, Gritta

Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database

Project
MarBEF: Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence

Publication
Based on this dataset
Gutzmann, H.E.; Martínez Arbizu, P.; Rose, A.; Veit-Köhler, G. (2004). Meiofauna communities along an abyssal depth gradient in the Drake Passage. Deep-Sea Res., Part 2, Top. Stud. Oceanogr. 51: 1617-1628


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2009-03-10
Metadatarecord created: 2006-12-05
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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