Spatial distribution patterns of the mega-epibenthos on the continental shelves off the northern Antarctic Peninsula studied from OFOS seabed images taken during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXIX/3 (PS81) 2013

• Main Authors: Piepenburg, Dieter, Gutt, Julian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Anthozoa; cover; ANT-XXIX/3; Area; Ascidiacea; colonial; solitary; Asteroidea; Bryozoa; Crinoidea; DATE/TIME; Demospongiae; Depth; bathymetric; Echinoidea; Epifauna; other; Event label; Fauna; total; File name; Gorgonaria; Hard substrat; classes; Hemichordata; Hexactinellida; Holothuroidea; deposit-feeding; filter-feeding; Hydrozoa; Infauna indicator; LATITUDE; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bransfield Strait; Drake Passage; Southern Ocean; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.897047; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.897047

The epibenthos of the Southern Ocean shelves plays a significant role in marine ecosystem functioning, including biodiversity processes, but information on its composition, distribution and ecological drivers is still scarce. Here, we report results of a first study on the relationship between the s...