Benthic macrofauna abundance and biomass in the muddy region in southeast of the island of Helgoland (North Sea)

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Benthic macrofauna were sampled on expedition HE625 of the R/V Heincke in July 2023 at 50 stations spread evenly over the muddy sediment region in southeast of the island of Helgoland (southeastern North Sea). At each station, two replicate samples were taken with a van Veen grab with a sampling area of 0.1 m² and a penetration depth of 10 cm. The first sample was sieved through a 1000 µm mesh to retain macrofauna, and species were determined to the lowest taxonomic level. The WoRMS LSIDs (AphiaID) was provided to identify the scientific name of the species. For each taxon, the total wet weight was measured with a precision of 0.001 g. The dataset comprises counted abundance and biomass records for 171 infaunal taxa.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.993038
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.993038
Provenance
Creator Tung, Chueh-Chen ORCID logo; Beermann, Jan ORCID logo; Sander, Lasse ORCID logo; Gutow, Lars ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Landesamt für Umwelt https://ror.org/00wvvcy92 ROR 0608.452217 Untersuchung der Tiefen Rinne bei Helgoland und der circalitoralen Schlickgebiete im schleswig-holsteinischen Küstenmeer (TRENCH)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 15639 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (7.652W, 53.975S, 8.387E, 54.223N); North Sea
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-07-03T05:57:30Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-07-04T16:40:35Z