Abundance of benthic organisms close to the Fourcade glacier front at Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, from December 2009 to February 2010, with links to photographs ...

• Main Authors: Lagger, Cristian, Servetto, Natalia, Torre, Luciana, Sahade, Ricardo José
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Optional event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Depth, bathymetric; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Cnemidocarpa; Molgula; Corella; Bryozoa; Porifera; Asteroidea; Gastropoda; Serolis; Sycozoa sigillinoides; Ctenophora; Laternula; Actiniaria; Comment; File name; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Counting; Impact of climate induced glacier melt on marine coastal systems, Antarctica IMCOAST/IMCONet; Antarc*; Antarctica; South Shetland Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.879335; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.879335

The study was conducted close to the Fourcade glacier front (<80 m), in the new ice-free areas at 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 m depths. Photographic surveys were undertaken by SCUBA diving during the austral summer from December 2009 to February 2010. A high definition SONY SR-12 digital camera housed...