Disko Fan Conservation Area in the Davis Strait (Eastern Arctic) - Epibenthic Megafauna Database
In 2012 and 2013, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted benthic imagery surveys in the Davis Strait and Baffin Basin in two areas then closed to bottom fishing, the Hatton Basin Voluntary Closure (now the Hatton Basin Conservation Area) and the Narwhal Closure (now partially in the Disko Fan Conservation Area). The photo transects were established as long-term biodiversity monitoring sites to monitor the impact of human activity, including climate change, on the region’s benthic marine biota in accordance with the protocols of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program established by the Council of Arctic Flora and Fauna. These images were analyzed in a techncial report that summarises the epibenthic megafauna found in seven image transects from the Disko Fan Conservation Area. A total of 480 taxa were found, 280 of which were identified as belonging to one of the following phyla: Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Nemertea, and Porifera. The remaining 200 taxa could not be assigned to a phylum and were categorised as Unidentified. Each taxon was identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level, typically class, order, or family. The summaries for each of the taxa include their identification numbers in the World Register of Marine Species and Integrated Taxonomic Information System’s databases, taxonomic hierarchies, images, and written descriptions. The report is intended to provide baseline documentation of the epibenthic megafauna in the Disko Fan Conservation Area, and serve as a taxonomic resource for future image analyses in the Arctic.
Baker, E., Beazley, L., McMillan, A., Rowsell, J. and Kenchington, E. 2018. Epibenthic Megafauna of the Disko Fan Conservation Area in the Davis Strait (Eastern Arctic) Identified from In Situ Benthic Image Transects. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3272: vi + 388 p.
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Epibenthic Megafauna of the Disko Fan Conservation Area in the Davis Strait (Eastern Arctic) Identified from In Situ Benthic Image Transects
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- 2018-08
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- Irregular
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CAFF
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CBMP
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Marine
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Davis Strait
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Disko Fan
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Benthic
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- English
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- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2012
- End date
- 2013
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Citation:
Baker, E., Beazley, L., McMillan, A., Rowsell, J. and Kenchington, E. 2018. Epibenthic Megafauna of the Disko Fan Conservation Area in the Davis Strait (Eastern Arctic) Identified from In Situ Benthic Image Transects. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3272: vi + 388 p.
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Figure1.jpg
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Map Image
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DFO_Canada_DiskoFan_2012_PhotoAnalysis.accdb
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Photo Analysis - MS Access database
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ReadMe_PhotoAnalysis Database_Sept06_2018.docx
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Photo Analysis Database - Read Me file
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4071438x.pdf
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Technical Report - PDF
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Experiment data files
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Benthic Photos collection
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- DavisStrait_Epibenthic_db ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map )
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Benthic Photos collection - On abds.is
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Experiment data files
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- f68086a7-d262-4963-9049-8ed45685aa01 XML
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- English
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- UTF16
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- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-02-13T13:58:15
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1.2
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08:00 - 04:00 GMT