Meiofauna counts during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXIX/3 in January-March 2013: Weddell Sea, Bransfield Strait, Drake Passage

• Main Authors: Veit-Köhler, Gritta, Durst, Stephan, Schuckenbrock, Jan, Hellmann, Annika, Bruhn, Marco, Durán Suja, Laura, Hauquier, Freija
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: Acari; Amphipoda; Annelida; ANT-XXIX/3; Area/locality; Bivalvia; Cladocera; Coelenterata; Copepoda; nauplii; Cumacea; Date/Time of event; Depth; bottom/max; sediment/rock; top/min; DP-243; DP-250; Elevation of event; Event label; Gastrotricha; Isopoda; Kinorhyncha; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Loricifera; MUC; MultiCorer; Nematoda; Ophiurida; Ostracoda; Polarstern; Priapulida; PS81; PS81/118-10; PS81/118-9; PS81/120-5; PS81/120-6; PS81/120-7; PS81/162-3; PS81/162-4; PS81/162-5; PS81/163-4; PS81/163-5; PS81/163-6; PS81/193-4; PS81/193-5; Weddell Sea; Drake Passage; Bransfield Strait; Weddell; Alfred Wegener Institute; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; Reports on Polar and Marine Research
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.882582; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.882582

In Weddell Sea, Bransfield Strait, and Drake Passage samples for meiofauna communities and sediment analyses were collected with a multicorer. Meiofauna communities included individuals from 19 higher taxa (sieve size 32 µm). The highest meiofauna abundances were found at slopes in the Weddell Sea. For Bransfield Strait and Drake Passage a sampling scheme of slopes and adjacent troughs was applied. This study was supported by the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz-Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Grant AWI_PS81_03).