Megafauna density observed using OFOS at the station HAUSGARTEN-I, 2017-2022

• Main Author: Meyer-Kaiser, Kirstin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: Amphipoda; Anemonia; ARK-XXXI/2; Bathyarca frielei; Bathybiaster vexillifer; Bylgides groenlandicus; Bythocaris leucopis; Cerianthidae; Changing Earth – Sustaining our Future; Colossendeis proboscidea; Elpidia heckeri; epibenthic fauna; Event label; File name; FRAM; FRAM 2022; FRontiers in Arctic marine Monitoring; Gastropoda; GPF 20-1_021; Hausgarten; Helmholtz_ChangingEarth; invertebrates; Jasmineira schaudinni; Liparidae; Long-term Investigation at AWI-Hausgarten off Svalbard; Lycodes squamiventer; Maria S. Merian; megafauna; Mohnia mohni; MSM108; MSM108_14-7; MSM77; MSM77_11-1; North Atlantic Ocean; North Greenland Sea; Nymphon macronyx; Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System; Ocean Floor Observation System; OFOBS; OFOS; Ophiocten gracilis; Polarstern; Pontaster tenuispinus; PS107; PS107_43-12; PS121; PS121_5-9; PS126; PS126_8-13; Sabellidae; Arctic; Greenland; Svalbard; Greenland Sea; North Atlantic; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.967215; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.967215

In 2017 - 2022, the Ocean Floor Observation System (OFOS) was used to survey epibenthic megafauna at the station HAUSGARTEN-I (79 N, 6 E, 1300 m depth). Data were collected every year except 2020 over a set transect. Images were collected automatically every 30 seconds, and additional images were co...