Published May 29, 2023 | Version 1
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Abyssal NE Pacific Seafloor Megafauna Dataset

Creators

  • 1. National Oceanography Centre
  • 2. SpeSeas
  • 3. Natural History Museum
  • 4. Institute of Marine Sciences - Okeanos, University of the Azores
  • 5. Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies & Department of Biology, University of Aveiro
  • 6. German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research, Senckenberg am Meer
  • 7. Ocean & Earth Science, University of Southampton
  • 8. NORCE Climate and Environment
  • 9. Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology
  • 10. University of Plymouth
  • 11. Marine Biology Research Group, Ghent University
  • 12. Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Description

Benthic megafauna invertebrate (animals > 10 mm) observations from seabed imagery data collected across the Clarion Clipperton Zone, in the NE Pacific abyss: 53512 specimens classified in 411 morphotypes (13 Phyla) based on the APSMA catalogue (see https://zenodo.org/record/7765164).

Dataset used to develop (please cite as): Simon-Lledó, et al. (2023). Carbonate compensation depth drives abyssal biogeography in the northeast Pacific. Nature Ecology & Evolution; doi:10.1038/s41559-023-02122-9

Notes

see README.txt file for data description

Files

APMegaF_README.txt

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Additional details

Related works

Is documented by
Annotation collection: 10.5281/zenodo.7765164 (DOI)

Funding

Seabed Mining And Resilience To EXperimental impact NE/T003537/1
UK Research and Innovation