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 Availability:
![]() 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, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Meiobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, PSW, Drake Passage 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), more, data creator, data owner
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Project
MarBEF: Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - EU Network of Excellence, more
Grant agreement ID 505446
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, more
URLs
Dataset information: Other: 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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