Macrofaunal abundance and biomass for replicate macrofaunal communities from the Western Barents Sea for summer 2017 and 2018

• Main Authors: Solan, Martin, Godbold, Jasmin, Grange, Laura, Ward, Ellie Rose, Wood, Christina, Reed, Adam
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation 2020
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","BIOSPHERE","ECOSYSTEMS","MARINE ECOSYSTEMS","BENTHIC"; "EARTH SCIENCE","BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION","ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES"; biodiversity; evenness; macrofaunal abundance; macrofaunal biomass; species composition; species richness; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; McNeill; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/7fbca0a1-e2c1-4265-a7a5-713451cb52c0; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01371

Sediment cores were taken using a box corer. The sediment was subsampled using a 20 x 20 x 12 cm and incubated for 12 days. At the end of incubation, the macrofauna retained (500 um sieved) from each aquarium were fixed in 10% phosphate buffered formalin (4% formaldehyde) and stored in sealed plasti...