Replication Data for: Functional Pattern of Benthic Epifauna in the Chukchi Borderland, Arctic Deep Sea ...

• Main Author: Zhulay, Irina
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: DataverseNO 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18710/ogoawn; https://dataverse.no/citation?persistentId=doi:10.18710/OGOAWN

This dataset contains “traits by taxon”, “taxa by stations”, and “traits by stations” matrices for 106 benthic epifaunal taxa collected with a beam trawl and a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) in the Chukchi Borderland (CBL), north of Alaska (74 - 78°N, 158 - 165°W) on-board USCGC Healy in July–August 2016 from 486 – 2610 m depth. The data were used to evaluate ecosystem functioning of the deep-sea Arctic CBL with the Biological Trait Analysis. Table S1 contains literature sources used for coding trait modalities. Table S2 contains the “traits by taxon” matrix for epifaunal taxa collected with both the ROV and the beam trawl across the study area. Nine traits with a total of 39 modalities, reflecting morphology (adult size, body form), behavior (living habitat, mobility, adult movement, feeding habit, substrate affinity), and life-cycle characteristics (larval development and reproduction) of the epifauna are included in this matrix. Every trait is coded for every taxon with a ‘fuzzy coding’ procedure ...