Arctic Nearshore Impact Monitoring in the Development Area (ANIMIDA) III: The Boulder Patch and other Kelp Communities in the Development Area. Ecosystem monitoring data collected from the Boulder Patch, Stefansson Sound, Alaska (1976-2018).

• Main Authors: Dunton, Kenneth, Bonsell, Christina, Iken, Katrin, Aumack, Craig, Konar, Brenda, Muth, Arley, Schonberg, Susan
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2020
• Subjects: Stefansson Sound; kelp; hydrography; oceanography; ecology; benthos; Arctic; Stefansson; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a24q7qr0v; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A24Q7QR0V

In the nearshore Alaskan Beaufort Sea, discrete, isolated rocky habitats harbor biological communities that are unusually diverse for the region, with markedly different fauna and flora than found in the surrounding soft sediment areas. The boulder fields also support tightly linked food webs, with...