Benthic Epifauna Biomass and Abundance Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise, August 2017

Sampling event
Latest version published by United States Geological Survey on Jan 18, 2023 United States Geological Survey

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Description

Marine biodiversity is a key component of ocean health. Monitoring and understanding marine biodiversity is essential for our ability to forecast and respond to changes. The goal of the Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) project is to demonstrate and build an operational marine biodiversity observing network from microbes to whales, integrating diversity levels from genetic to organismal. AMBON field region is located on the Chukchi Sea continental shelf in the US Arctic as a region exposed to climatic changes and anthropogenic influences. This dataset contains biomass and abundance data collected in the Chukchi Sea during the August 2017 Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise. Epifauna samples were collected using beam trawl during a research cruise during August 2017 in the Chukchi Sea, U.S. Arctic. The data consist of biomass per taxon of epibenthic invertebrates. The dataset is a comma separated values file exported from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. This dataset was transformed from the native format into a table structure using Darwin Core term names as column names.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 81 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
81
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
4682
Occurrence 
2341

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9f9cf852-babb-4c52-b17f-f81dbe96c527.  United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Samplingevent

Contacts

Katrin Iken
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Professor
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Adrienne Canino
  • Metadata Provider
  • Data Librarian
Axiom Data Science
Abby Benson
  • Publisher
  • Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Mathew Biddle
  • Distributor
  • Physical Scientist
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (US MBON)
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20910 Silver Spring
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Geographic Coverage

Chukchi Sea, Alaska, USA

Bounding Coordinates South West [67.617, -168.943], North East [72.494, -164.113]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2017-08-06 / 2017-08-22

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by OBIS

Alternative Identifiers 9f9cf852-babb-4c52-b17f-f81dbe96c527
https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=ambon_epifauna_2017