Abundance of benthic organisms close to the Fourcade glacier front at Potter Cove, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, from December 2009 to February 2010, with links to photographs

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The study was conducted close to the Fourcade glacier front (<80 m), in the new ice-free areas at 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 m depths. Photographic surveys were undertaken by SCUBA diving during the austral summer from December 2009 to February 2010. A high definition SONY SR-12 digital camera housed in an Amphibico case and fitted with 2 led lights was used to take the pictures. An aluminum frame (40 x 30 cm) was attached to the housing and used to quantify the sampled area. At each depth profile, photographs were randomly taken along the selected isobaths. A total of 45 0.12 m² images were taken at each depth, resulting in a total area of ~30 m². Photographs were projected onto grids of 100 points and those underlying each organism were counted to estimate percentage cover and bare substratum per square meter. Animals in each photograph were counted (abundance) and the total number divided by the area sampled to estimate densities. Abundance and percentage cover were analyzed from the photographs with ImageJ. Identification and quantification was always conducted by the same person (CL) in order to reduce methodological bias.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.879335
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.879315
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186756
Related Identifier https://hs.pangaea.de/Images/Benthos/KGI/PotterCove/FGF/FGF_images.zip
Related Identifier https://www.pangaea.de/helpers/Benthos.php?B=KGI&C=PotterCove&S=FGF&ID=879335
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.879335
Provenance
Creator Lagger, Cristian ORCID logo; Servetto, Natalia ORCID logo; Torre, Luciana ORCID logo; Sahade, Ricardo José ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2017
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2928 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-58.640 LON, -62.225 LAT); Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula