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Gutt, Julian (2010): Sea-floor images during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XIII/3 to the Weddell Sea, Antarctica [dataset publication series]. Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.755488

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Abstract:
Transects of a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) providing sea-bed videos and photographs were carried out during POLARSTERN expedition ANT-XIII/3 focussing on the ecology of benthic assemblages on the Antarctic shelf in the South-Eastern Weddell Sea. The ROV-system sprint 103 was equiped with two video- and one still camera, lights, flash-lights, compass, and parallel lasers providing a scale in the images, a tether-management system (TMS), a winch, and the board units. All cameras used the same main lense and could be tilted. Videos were recorded in Betacam-format and (film-)slides were made by decision of the scientific pilot. The latter were mainly made under the aspect to improve the identification of organisms depicted in the videos because the still photographs have a much higher optical resolution than the videos. In the photographs species larger than 3 mm, in the videos larger than 1 cm are recognisable and countable. Under optimum conditions the transects were strait; the speed and direction of the ROV were determined by the drift of the ship in the coastal current, since both, the ship and the ROV were used as a drifting system; the option to operate the vehicle actively was only used to avoide obstacles and to reach at best a distance of only approximately 30 cm to the sea-floor. As a consequence the width of the photographs in the foreground is approximately 50 cm. Deviations from this strategy resulted mainly from difficult ice- and weather conditions but also from high current velocity and local up-welling close to the sea-bed.
The sea-bed images provide insights into the general composition of key species, higher systematic groups and ecological guilds. Within interdisciplinary approaches distributions of assemblages can be attributed to environmental conditions such as bathymetry, sediment characteristics, water masses and current regimes. The images also contain valuable information on how benthic species are associated to each other. Along the transects, small- to intermediate-scaled disturbances, e.g. by grounding icebergs were analysed and further impact to the entire benthic system by local succession of recolonisation was studied. This information can be used for models predicting the impact of climate change to benthic life in the Southern Ocean. All these approaches contribute to a better understanding of the fiunctioning of the benthic system and related components of the entire Antarctic marine ecosystem. Despite their scientific value the imaging methods meet concerns about the protection of sensitive Antarctic benthic systems since they are non-invasive and they also provide valuable material for education and outreach purposes.
Related to:
Gutt, Julian (2000): Some driving forces structuring communities of the sublittoral Antarctic macrobenthos. Antarctic Science, 12(3), 297-313, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102000000365
Gutt, Julian (2001): High latitude antarctic benthos: a coevolution of nature conservation and ecosystem research? Ocean and Polar Research, 23(4), 411-417, http://koix.kisti.re.kr/root_resolution.jsp?koi=KISTI1.1003/JNL.JAKO200112242749322
Gutt, Julian (2001): On the direct impact of ice on marine benthic communities, a review. Polar Biology, 24(8), 553-564, https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000100262
Gutt, Julian (2002): The Antarctic ice shelf: an extreme habitat for notothenioid fish. Polar Biology, 25(4), 320-322, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-001-0352-9
Gutt, Julian; Arntz, Wolf E; Balguerías, Eduardo; Brandt, Angelika; Gerdes, Dieter; Gorny, Matthias; Sirenko, Boris I (2003): Diverse approaches to questions of diversity: German contributions to benthos studies around South American and Antarctica. Gayana, 67(2), 177-189, https://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-65382003000200007
Gutt, Julian; Buschmann, Alexander; Dimmler, Werner; Frey, Norbert; Gerdes, Dieter; Bohlmann, Harald; Grünwald, Tanja; Lee, Hee Jong; Niederjasper, Fred; Schickan, Thomas; Vanhove, Sandra (1997): The impact of icebergs on benthic assemblages. In: Arntz, W & Gutt, J (1997) The Expedition ANTARKTIS XIII/3 (EASIZ I) of Polarstern to the eastern Weddell Sea in 1996. Reports on Polar and Marine Research, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, 249, 35-41, hdl:10013/epic.10252.d001
Gutt, Julian; Piepenburg, Dieter (2003): Scale-dependent impacts of catastrophic disturbances by grounding icebergs on the diversity of Antarctic benthos. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 253, 77-83, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps253077
Gutt, Julian; Starmans, Andreas (2001): Quantification of iceberg impact and benthic recolonisation patterns in the Weddell Sea (Antarctica). Polar Biology, 24(8), 615-619, https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000100263
Raguá-Gil, Juana Maria; Gutt, Julian; Clarke, Andrew; Arntz, Wolf E (2004): Antarctic shallow-water mega-epibenthos: shaped by circumpolar dispersion or local conditions? Marine Biology, 144(5), 829-839, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-003-1269-3
Project(s):
Archive of Underwater Imaging (AUI)
Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone (EASIZ)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -71.304019 * Median Longitude: -12.499695 * South-bound Latitude: -71.964862 * West-bound Longitude: -15.849553 * North-bound Latitude: -70.492179 * East-bound Longitude: -8.496558
Date/Time Start: 1996-02-06T15:05:50 * Date/Time End: 1996-03-05T03:17:06
Event(s):
PS39/005-5 * Latitude Start: -71.675358 * Longitude Start: -12.739860 * Latitude End: -71.670841 * Longitude End: -12.721638 * Date/Time Start: 1996-02-06T15:05:50 * Date/Time End: 1996-02-06T15:40:48 * Elevation Start: -229.0 m * Elevation End: -236.0 m * Location: Weddell Sea * Campaign: ANT-XIII/3 (PS39 EASIZ) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Remote operated vehicle SPRINT 103 (ROVS)
PS39/005-10 * Latitude Start: -71.674833 * Longitude Start: -12.725167 * Latitude End: -71.676500 * Longitude End: -12.720667 * Date/Time Start: 1996-02-07T06:16:00 * Date/Time End: 1996-02-07T07:06:00 * Elevation Start: -232.0 m * Elevation End: -240.0 m * Location: Weddell Sea * Campaign: ANT-XIII/3 (PS39 EASIZ) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Photo sledge (FTS)
PS39/006-1 * Latitude Start: -71.518333 * Longitude Start: -13.513333 * Latitude End: -71.513333 * Longitude End: -13.516667 * Date/Time Start: 1996-02-07T14:10:00 * Date/Time End: 1996-02-07T14:46:00 * Elevation Start: -223.0 m * Elevation End: -226.0 m * Location: Weddell Sea * Campaign: ANT-XIII/3 (PS39 EASIZ) * Basis: Polarstern * Method/Device: Photo sledge (FTS)
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/005-5. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198643
  2. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/006-9. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198646
  3. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/006-18. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198644
  4. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/006-22. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198645
  5. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/007-7. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198647
  6. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/008-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198648
  7. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/009-8. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198649
  8. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/010-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198650
  9. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/023-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198653
  10. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/024-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198654
  11. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/024-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198656
  12. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/024-9. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198657
  13. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/024-12. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198655
  14. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/026-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198658
  15. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/026-2. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198659
  16. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/026-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198660
  17. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/026-8. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198661
  18. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/027-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198662
  19. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/032-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198663
  20. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/032-2. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198664
  21. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/032-5. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198665
  22. Gutt, J (2004): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along ROV profile PS39/032-6. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.198666
  23. Gutt, J (2005): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along profile PS39/005-10. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.319888
  24. Gutt, J (2005): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along profile PS39/006-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.319889
  25. Gutt, J (2005): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along profile PS39/007-1. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.319890
  26. Gutt, J (2005): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along profile PS39/008-11. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.319891
  27. Gutt, J (2005): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along profile PS39/009-3. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.319892
  28. Gutt, J (2005): Sea-bed photographs (benthos) along profile PS39/025-15. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.319893