Citation:

PANGAEA.963640

Name: Occurrence and abundance records of macrobenthic organisms collected from grab samples taken in Canadian Arctic seas between 1955 and 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: Abundance; Arctic; Canadian Arctic; Macrobenthos; occurence

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Abstract:

This dataset is a component of the PAN-Arctic data collection of benthic BIOtas (PANABIO) and has been collated during the Census of Marine Life project Arctic Ocean Diversity (ArcOD; http://www.arcodiv.org/). It contains a total of 7,203 occurrence and abundance records of 793 macrobenthic taxa (species to genus level) identified in 235 grab samples taken at 235 stations located in various Canadian Arctic seas at water depths of 1–970 m during 24 cruises between 1955 and 1975. The dataset is also available in a PostgreSQL-based data warehouse that can be accessed and queried through an open-access frontend web service at https://critterbase.awi.de/panabio.

Keyword(s):

Abundance; Arctic; Canadian Arctic; Macrobenthos; occurence

Related to:

Cusson, Mathieu; Archambault, Philippe; Aitken, Alan (2007): Biodiversity of benthic assemblages on the Arctic continental shelf: historical data from Canada. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 331, 291-304, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps331291

Coverage:

Median Latitude: 64.947618 * Median Longitude: -88.946690 * South-bound Latitude: 52.230000 * West-bound Longitude: -139.600000 * North-bound Latitude: 71.370000 * East-bound Longitude: -56.980000

Date/Time Start: 1955-08-17T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1977-09-22T00:00:00

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Comment
1	Other event	Other event		Dannheim, Jennifer	CRITTERBASE Cruise-Station-Sample Identifier
2	DATE/TIME	Date/Time		Dannheim, Jennifer	Geocode
3	LATITUDE	Latitude		Dannheim, Jennifer	Geocode
4	LONGITUDE	Longitude		Dannheim, Jennifer	Geocode
5	Project	Project		Dannheim, Jennifer	Unique name, e.g. combination of project name and specific cruise
6	Campaign	Campaign		Dannheim, Jennifer	CRITTERBASE Cruise Identifier
7	Principal investigator	PI		Dannheim, Jennifer	Contact at Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI)
8	Principal investigator	PI		Dannheim, Jennifer	Dataset reference person
9	Precision parameter	k		Dannheim, Jennifer	Spatial precision as number of decimal digits for geographic position: lat, lon - range: 1-5 - default when field is left empty is 5
10	Area	Area	m²	Dannheim, Jennifer	Area defined on which abundance was calculated; mostly only relevant for historical data, if only abundance data and no count data are available any more
11	Category	Cat		Dannheim, Jennifer	Gear category, e.g. grab, trawl, video
12	Analytical method	Method		Dannheim, Jennifer
13	Taxonomic coverage	Taxo cov		Dannheim, Jennifer	Defines the taxonomic coverage or scope, e.g. Benthos complete
14	Taxonomic hierarchy	Taxon hierarchy		Dannheim, Jennifer	Taxonomic resolution of biota: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
15	Species, unique identification	Species UID		Dannheim, Jennifer
16	Species, unique identification (Semantic URI)	Species UID (Semantic URI)		Dannheim, Jennifer
17	Species, unique identification (URI)	Species UID (URI)		Dannheim, Jennifer
18	Presence/absence	Presence/absence		Dannheim, Jennifer	Presence/Absence
19	Abundance	Abund		Dannheim, Jennifer	Total number of individuals per taxon per reference area/volume

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0) (License comes into effect after moratorium ends)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 4 (ProcLevel4)

Size:

93210 data points

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