Arctic Nearshore Impact Monitoring in the Development Area (ANIMIDA) III: The Boulder Patch and other Kelp Communities in the Development Area. Ecosystem monitoring data collected from the Boulder Patch, Stefansson Sound, Alaska (1976-2018).

• Main Authors: Kenneth Dunton, Christina Bonsell, Katrin Iken, Craig Aumack, Brenda Konar, Arley Muth, Susan Schonberg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2020
• Subjects: Stefansson Sound; kelp; hydrography; oceanography; ecology; benthos; Arctic; Stefansson; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:31ef4808-43e0-469d-9f88-af091f966faa

In the nearshore Alaskan Beaufort Sea, discrete, isolated rocky habitats harbor biological communities that are unusually diverse for the region, with markedly different fauna and flora than found in the surrounding soft sediment areas. The boulder fields also support tightly linked food webs, with...