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Megafaunal data from the 2009 BIOFUN trans-Mediterranean deep-sea cruise
Citable as data publication
Tecchio, S.; Ramirez-Llodra, E. (2018): Megafaunal data from the 2009 BIOFUN trans-Mediterranean deep-sea cruise. https://doi.org/10.14284/311
Contact: Tecchio, Samuele

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Archived file:
Availability: CC0 To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.

Description
Deep-sea sampling in 2009 onboard the R/V Sarmiento de Gamboa in the three Mediterranean basins. A combination of 2 samplers was used to collect the benthic megafauna: an otter-trawl Maireta system (OTMS) and an Agassiz dredge. The OTMS is a 1-warp benthic otter-trawl designed to work seamlessly on high depth grounds: its stretch mesh size at the cod-end is 40mm, with an outer cover of 12mm, to allow retrieval of small-sized fractions of megafauna. The net total length is 25m, with an horizontal opening of 12.7m and a vertical opening of 1.4m. Trawls were conducted at 2.6 to 2.8 knots. The Agassiz dredge had a 2.5 m horizontal opening and 1.2 m vertical opening, a net mesh size of 12 mm, and was trawled at 2.0 knots.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Benthos, Deep water, research vessel, Sarmiento de Gamboa, ASE, Mediterranean Water, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Crustacea, Mollusca, Pisces

Geographical coverage
ASE, Mediterranean Water [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 1,7833; MinLat: 34,501 - MaxLong: 26,3333; MaxLat: 39,4665 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
30 May 2009 - 27 June 2009

Taxonomic coverage
Crustacea [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Pisces [WoRMS]

Parameters
Abundance
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Biomass
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Speed of measurement platform relative to ground surface {speed over ground} [BODC]
Wet weight biomass of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]

Contributors
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM)data creator
Tecchio, Samuele
Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), moredata creator
Ramirez-Llodra, Eva

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Project
BIOFUN: BIOdiversity and ecosystem FUNctioning in contrasting southern European deep-sea environments: from viruses to megafauna

Publication
Based on this dataset
Tecchio, S. et al. (2015). Structure, functioning, and cumulative stressors of Mediterranean deep-sea ecosystems. Prog. Oceanogr. 135: 156-167. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.05.018
Tecchio, S. et al. (2011). Drivers of deep Mediterranean megabenthos communities along longitudinal and bathymetric gradients. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 439: 181-192. https://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps09333

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2018-01-29
Information last updated: 2022-08-02
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