Environmental conditions, macrozoobenthos abundance and biomass from three expeditions to the Central Arctic Ocean

• Main Authors: Vedenin, Andrey, Gusky, Manuela, Gebruk, Andrey V, Kremenetskaia, Antonina, Rybakova, Elena, Boetius, Antje
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; Berichte zur Polarforschung; laptev; Polar Research; Polarforschung; Reports on Polar and Marine Research; Reports on polar research; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.890152; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890152

Permanent sea-ice cover and low primary productivity in the mostly ice-covered Central Arctic ocean basins result in significantly lower biomass and density of macrobenthos in the abyssal plains compared to the continental slopes. However, little is known on bathymetric and regional effects on the m...