Sea-bed photographs (benthos) from the AWI-Hausgarten area along OFOS profile PS62/191-1 ...
Although the use of deep-sea imagery considerably increased during the last decades, reports on nekton falls to the deep seafloor are very scarce. Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebra...
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ftdatacite:10.1594/pangaea.227671 2024-09-15T18:38:27+00:00 Sea-bed photographs (benthos) from the AWI-Hausgarten area along OFOS profile PS62/191-1 ... Soltwedel, Thomas von Juterzenka, Karen Premke, Karin Klages, Michael 2003 https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.227671 https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.227671 en eng PANGAEA https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0399-1784(03)00060-4 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode cc-by-3.0 Hausgarten Ocean Floor Observation System ARK-XVIII/1 Polarstern Archive of Underwater Imaging AUI Long-term Investigation at AWI-Hausgarten off Svalbard Hausgarten Dataset dataset Supplementary Dataset 2003 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.22767110.1016/s0399-1784(03)00060-4 2024-07-03T13:10:31Z Although the use of deep-sea imagery considerably increased during the last decades, reports on nekton falls to the deep seafloor are very scarce. Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare. After 4 years of extensive work at a deep-sea long-term station in northern polar regions (AWI-"Hausgarten"), including large-scale visual observations with various camera systems covering some 10 000 m2 of seafloor at water depths between 1250 and 5600 m, this paper describes the first observation of a fish carcass at about 1280 m water depth, west off Svålbard. The fish skeleton had a total length of 36 cm and an approximated biomass of 0.5 kg wet weight. On the basis of in situ experiments, we estimated a very short residence time of this particular carcass of about 7 h at the bottom. The fast response of the motile deep-sea scavenger ... : Cable-operated drifting camera frame Ocean Floor Observation system (OFOS). System details: Still camera 35 mm (Benthos), Kodak Ectachrome 100 Asa colour slide film, B/w video camera (DeepSea Power & Light), two flashes (600W/s), Distance of laser points: 0.5 mDeployment details: Drift velocity: approx. 0.5 knots, Distance to seafloor: approx. 1.5 m ... Dataset Svalbard DataCite |
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Although the use of deep-sea imagery considerably increased during the last decades, reports on nekton falls to the deep seafloor are very scarce. Whereas there are a few reports describing the finding of whale carcasses in the deep north-eastern and south-eastern Pacific, descriptions of invertebrate or vertebrate food-falls at centimetre to metre scale are extremely rare. After 4 years of extensive work at a deep-sea long-term station in northern polar regions (AWI-"Hausgarten"), including large-scale visual observations with various camera systems covering some 10 000 m2 of seafloor at water depths between 1250 and 5600 m, this paper describes the first observation of a fish carcass at about 1280 m water depth, west off Svålbard. The fish skeleton had a total length of 36 cm and an approximated biomass of 0.5 kg wet weight. On the basis of in situ experiments, we estimated a very short residence time of this particular carcass of about 7 h at the bottom. The fast response of the motile deep-sea scavenger ... : Cable-operated drifting camera frame Ocean Floor Observation system (OFOS). System details: Still camera 35 mm (Benthos), Kodak Ectachrome 100 Asa colour slide film, B/w video camera (DeepSea Power & Light), two flashes (600W/s), Distance of laser points: 0.5 mDeployment details: Drift velocity: approx. 0.5 knots, Distance to seafloor: approx. 1.5 m ... |
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Sea-bed photographs (benthos) from the AWI-Hausgarten area along OFOS profile PS62/191-1 ... |
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Sea-bed photographs (benthos) from the AWI-Hausgarten area along OFOS profile PS62/191-1 ... |
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Sea-bed photographs (benthos) from the AWI-Hausgarten area along OFOS profile PS62/191-1 ... |
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Sea-bed photographs (benthos) from the AWI-Hausgarten area along OFOS profile PS62/191-1 ... |
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