Macrofaunal abundance and biomass for replicate macrofaunal communities from the Western Barents Sea for summer 2017 and 2018

• Main Authors: Wood, Christina, Centre, UK Polar Data, Reed, Adam, Grange, Laura, Godbold, Jasmin, Solan, Martin, Ward, Ellie Rose
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Natural Environment Research Council 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; McNeill; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/478936/

Sediment cores were taken using a box corer. The sediment was subsampled using a 20 x 20 x 12 cm and incubated for 12 days. At the end of incubation, the macrofauna retained (500 um sieved) from each aquarium were fixed in 10% phosphate buffered formalin (4% formaldehyde) and stored in sealed plasti...