Zettler, Michael Lothar (2025): Marine macrozoobenthos data from van Veen grabs and box corers off Namibia from the cruise MSM105 in the year 2022 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.986654
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Published: 2025-10-21 • DOI registered: 2025-11-19
Abstract:
During the cruise of MSM105 at several stations off Namibia benthic investigations were carried out in January and February 2022. The data contains the abundance, biomass and species number we found during this cruise between 18 and 27°South. The water depths sampled were between 25 and 2060 metres. Methods used: van Veen grab, box corer and multicorer, sieved 1 mm, fixed with formalin and sorted in the laboratory, microscopy, taxonomic identification, counting and weighing of the species
Related to:
Amorim, Katherine; Zettler, Michael Lothar (2023): Gradients and instability: Macrozoobenthic communities in the Benguela Upwelling System off Namibia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 291, 108421, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2023.108421
Zettler, Michael Lothar (2025): Marine macrozoobenthos data from multicorers off Namibia from the cruise MSM105 in the year 2022 [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.986655
Project(s):
Funding:
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03F0814A: Küstennahe Auftriebsgebiete EVAR: Effekte von Variabilität im physikalischen Antrieb auf Makro- und Mikroorganismen und auf die von ihnen katalysierten biogeochemischen Prozesse
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -23.935110 * Median Longitude: 13.880565 * South-bound Latitude: -27.000000 * West-bound Longitude: 11.116667 * North-bound Latitude: -18.000000 * East-bound Longitude: 19.100000
Date/Time Start: 2022-01-12T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-02-05T00:00:00
Minimum ELEVATION: -2060.0 m a.s.l. * Maximum ELEVATION: -25.0 m a.s.l.
Event(s):
MSM105_4-3 * Latitude: -23.000440 * Longitude: 12.332640 * Date/Time: 2022-01-12T16:53:33 * Elevation: -2060.0 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: MSM105 (BUSUC II) * Basis: Maria S. Merian * Method/Device: Box corer (BC)
MSM105_6-3 * Latitude: -22.999990 * Longitude: 12.783400 * Date/Time: 2022-01-13T00:42:54 * Elevation: -940.0 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: MSM105 (BUSUC II) * Basis: Maria S. Merian * Method/Device: Box corer (BC)
MSM105_12-7 * Latitude Start: -23.000060 * Longitude Start: 13.316860 * Latitude End: -23.000060 * Longitude End: 13.316850 * Date/Time Start: 2022-01-14T00:12:11 * Date/Time End: 2022-01-14T00:34:10 * Elevation Start: -361.0 m * Elevation End: -360.0 m * Location: South Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: MSM105 (BUSUC II) * Basis: Maria S. Merian * Method/Device: van Veen Grab (VGRAB)
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Zettler, Michael Lothar | |||
| 2 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Geocode | ||
| 3 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Geocode | ||
| 4 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Geocode – Date | ||
| 5 | ELEVATION | Elevation | m a.s.l. | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Geocode | |
| 6 | Station label | Station | Zettler, Michael Lothar | |||
| 7 | Cruise/expedition | Expedition | Zettler, Michael Lothar | |||
| 8 | Gear | Gear | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Device | ||
| 9 | Area | Area | cm2 | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Device size | |
| 10 | Replicates | Repl | # | Zettler, Michael Lothar | ||
| 11 | Macrozoobenthos | Macrozoobenthos | #/m2 | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Avg Abundance | |
| 12 | Macrozoobenthos, biomass, wet mass | Macrozoobenth biom wm | g/m2 | Zettler, Michael Lothar | Avg Biomass | |
| 13 | Number of taxa | Taxa | # | Zettler, Michael Lothar |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
384 data points