Abundance and biomass of benthic foraminifers in the region of the South Sandwich Trench and Falkland Islands

DOI

Distribution and biomass of living benthic foraminifers was studied in two sections in the region of the South Sandwich Trench and Falkland Islands. Biomass was found to be high (up to 30 g/m**2) and closely related to number of tests both with and without plasma. Abundance and biomass were the highest in subantarctic waters near the Falkland Islands. The bulk of biomass is made of secretory foraminifers. Agglutinating foraminifers form the largest biomass.

Supplement to: Basov, Ivan A (1974): Biomass of benthic foraminifers in the region of the South Sandwich Trench and Falkland Islands. Oceanology, 14, 277-279

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.754000
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.754000
Provenance
Creator Basov, Ivan A
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 1974
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 87 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-57.267W, -59.285S, 26.667E, -52.134N); Southern Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 1971-11-30T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 1971-12-18T00:00:00Z