Meiofauna counts during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXIX/3 in January-March 2013: Weddell Sea, Bransfield Strait, Drake Passage ...

• Main Authors: Veit-Köhler, Gritta, Durst, Stephan, Schuckenbrock, Jan, Hellmann, Annika, Bruhn, Marco, Durán Suja, Laura, Hauquier, Freija
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Event label; Date/Time of event; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Elevation of event; Area/locality; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Depth, top/min; Depth, bottom/max; Replicates; Copepoda; Gastrotricha; Loricifera; Rotifera; Tardigrada; Acari; Amphipoda; Annelida; Bivalvia; Cumacea; Isopoda; Kinorhyncha; Ostracoda; Priapulida; Tanaidacea; Coelenterata; Cladocera; Copepoda, nauplii; Nematoda; Ophiurida; MultiCorer; ANT-XXIX/3; Polarstern; Bransfield Strait; Drake Passage; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Alfred Wegener Institute
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.882582; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.882582

In Weddell Sea, Bransfield Strait, and Drake Passage samples for meiofauna communities and sediment analyses were collected with a multicorer. Meiofauna communities included individuals from 19 higher taxa (sieve size 32 µm). The highest meiofauna abundances were found at slopes in the Weddell Sea. For Bransfield Strait and Drake Passage a sampling scheme of slopes and adjacent troughs was applied.This study was supported by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Grant AWI_PS81_03). ... : Abundance in individuals per 10 cm**2. ...