Abundance and biomass records of two sea urchin species (Sterechinus antarcticus, S. neumayeri) from trawls, grabs, traps and photographs in the Weddell Sea during POLARSTERN cruises ANT-I/2, ANT-II/4, ANT-III/3, ANT-V/3-4, ANT-VI/3 and ANT-VII/4

• Main Authors: Teschke, Katharina, Gutt, Julian, Brey, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2019
• Subjects: Event label; Campaign; Station label; Sample ID; Project; DEPTH, water; Gear; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Date; Ship speed; Trawling time; Trawling distance; Width; Length; Height; Mesh size; Area; Number of photos; Uniform resource locator/link to image; Sterechinus antarcticus; Sterechinus neumayeri; Sterechinus antarcticus, dry mass; Sterechinus neumayeri, dry mass; Sterechinus spp.; Multiple investigations; Photo sledge; Dredge; Agassiz Trawl; Bottom trawl; Multiboxcorer; Bentho-pelagic trawl; ANT-I/2; ANT-II/4; ANT-III/3; ANT-V/3; ANT-V/4; ANT-VI/3; ANT-VII/4; Polarstern; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Weir; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.898706; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.898706

The dataset comprises a total of 336 records of abundance and biomass of two sea urchin species, Sterechinus antarcticus Koehler, 1901 and Sterechinus neumayeri (Meissner, 1900), from 67 trawls (Agassiz trawl, bottom trawl or dredge), 56 photo sessions (see doi link to photographs in dataset) and three other samples (multi-box corer, giant box corer, weir basket). The data were collected on the eastern and southern shelf and slope of the Antarctic Weddell Sea (depth range: 97 - 1243 m) during "Polarstern" cruises ANT I/2 (1983), ANT II/4 (1984), ANT III/3 (1985), ANT V/3 (1986), ANT V/4 (1987), ANT VI/3 (1988) and ANT VII/4 (1989).