Sea Ice Biota data from drift stations and research ship cruises in the Arctic Ocean from 1970s to 2011

• Main Authors: Hop, Haakon, Melnikov, Igor A.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2014
• Subjects: BIOTA; ENVIRONMENT; OCEANS; seaice; EARTH SCIENCE; SEA ICE; SEA ICE AGE; CRYOSPHERE; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; sea ice biota; Antarctic; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*; ice algae; Norwegian Polar Institute; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://data.npolar.no/dataset/36140bc5-e8b4-40fe-b50c-a569141dd694

The early collections in 1970s-1980s are from the pre-melting period, when there was still a large proportion of multiyear sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, whereas the later collections are mainly from first-year ice. The data sets include sea ice characteristics, ice algae, meiofauna (interstitial faun...