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Craig Smith UHM FOODBANCS 1 Megafauna data
Citation
Elbers, K., P. Y. G. Sumida and C. R. Smith, unpublished FOODBANCS-1 data. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/2406

Availability: Unrestricted for academic use
The data are freely available for research and education purposes. Usage acknowledgement is usually expected

Description
Data come from otter trawl collections and video surveys made of benthic megafauna during the FOODBANCS 1 project with from five cruises to the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf from 1999-2001.

Scope
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Antarctic waters, Antarctic zone, Biodiversity, Community composition, Fauna, Marine invertebrates, Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula, Anopla, Cephalopoda, Crinoidea, Echinoidea, Gastropoda, Holothuroidea, Polychaeta

Geographical coverage
Antarctica, Antarctic Peninsula [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
November 1999 - March 2001

Taxonomic coverage
Anopla [WoRMS]
Cephalopoda [WoRMS]
Crinoidea [WoRMS]
Echinoidea [WoRMS]
Gastropoda [WoRMS]
Holothuroidea [WoRMS]
Polychaeta [WoRMS]

Parameter
Presence of biota

Contributors
University of Hawaii; School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology; Department of Oceanography, moredata creatordata creatordata ownerdata provider
University of São Paulo (USP), moredata creatordata owner

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2010-04-12
Information last updated: 2010-04-12
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