Macro-epibenthic communities, bathymetry and enviromental information at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Authors: Gutt, Julian, Alvaro, Maria Chiara, Barco, Andrea, Böhmer, Astrid, Bracher, Astrid, David, Bruno, De Ridder, Chantal, Dorschel, Boris, Eléaume, Marc, Janussen, Dorte, Kersken, Daniel, López-González, Pablo José, Martínez-Baraldés, Irene, Schröder, Michael, Segelken-Voigt, Alexandra, Teixidó, Núria
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Drake Passage; South Shetland Islands; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; Antarc*; Polar Biology; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.847998; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.847998

The Southern Ocean ecosystem at the Antarctic Peninsula has steep natural environmental gradients, e.g. in terms of water masses and ice cover, and experiences regional above global average climate change. An ecological macroepibenthic survey was conducted in three ecoregions in the north-western We...