Activity and biomass of small benthic biota in the central Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Soltwedel, Thomas, Schewe, Ingo
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1998
• Subjects: ADEPD; Arctic Ocean; Atlantic Data Base for Exchange Processes at the Deep Sea Floor; MUC; MultiCorer; OD96_MUC1; OD96_MUC10; OD96_MUC11; OD96_MUC12; OD96_MUC13; OD96_MUC14; OD96_MUC15; OD96_MUC16; OD96_MUC17; OD96_MUC18; OD96_MUC19; OD96_MUC2; OD96_MUC3; OD96_MUC4; OD96_MUC5; OD96_MUC6; OD96_MUC7; OD96_MUC8; OD96_MUC9; Oden; ODEN-96; Quaternary Environment of the Eurasian North; QUEEN; Arctic; Breaker; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.738504; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.738504

Sediment samples collected during the expedition “Arctic Ocean '96” with the Swedish ice-breaker ODEN were investigated to estimate for the first time heterotrophic activity and total microbial biomass (size range from bacteria to small metazoans) from the perennially ice-covered central Arctic...