Semi-quantitative records of benthic taxa from trawl samples taken in the wider Weddell Sea (Antarctica) during POLARSTERN cruises ANT VII/4, ANT IX/3, ANT XIII/3, ANT XV/3 and ANT XXI/2 between 1989 and 2004

• Main Authors: Teschke, Katharina, Brey, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: Acari; Actiniaria; Agassiz Trawl; AGT; Alcyonacea; Amphipoda; ANT-IX/3; ANT-VII/4; ANT-XIII/3; ANT-XV/3; ANT-XXI/2; Aplacophora; Ascidiacea; Asteroidea; Bentho-pelagic trawl; Bivalvia; Bottom trawl; BPT; Brachiopoda; Bryozoa; BT; Campaign; Cephalopoda; Cirripedia; Crinoidea; Cumacea; DATE/TIME; Date/time end; Decapoda; Demospongia; DEPTH; water; Drake Passage; Dredge; Rauschert; Drescher Inlet; Eastern Weddell Sea; Southern Ocean; Echinoidea; Echiurida; Errantia; Event label; Gear; Gorgonariana; Graptolithoidea; Halley Bay; Haul 8; Height; Hexacorallia; Hexactinellida; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bouvet; Bouvet Island; Lazarev; Lazarev Sea; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung; Berichte zur Polarforschung; Polar Research; Polarforschung; Reports on Polar and Marine Research; Reports on polar research
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.911801; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911801

The dataset comprises a total of 9,540 records of semi-quantitative data for 53 benthic invertebrate taxa and fish from 180 trawl samples (Agassiz trawl, bottom trawl, Rauschert dredge, benthopelagic trawl). The semi-quantitative data represent four categories regarding the frequency of occurrence of the benthic taxa (i.e. 0 = absent, 1 = rare, 2 = common and 3 = very common). The dataset was collected on the shelf and slope of the eastern Weddell Sea and Lazarev Sea, near Bouvet Island and the region at the north western tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (depth range: 64 - 2334 m) between 1989 and 2004 onboard "Polarstern". Cruises ANT VII/4 (1989), ANT IX/3 (1990/91), ANT XIII/3 (1996), ANT XV/3 (1998) and ANT XXI/2 (2003/2004) contributed to the data collection.