Occurrence

Zoobenthos data from the Southern Beaufort Sea, 1971-1975

Latest version published by Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna on 26 August 2019 Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
Publication date:
26 August 2019
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Zoobenthos data from the Southern Beaufort Sea, 1971-1975.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

J.W. Wacasey, E.G. Atkinson, L. Derick and I. Weinstein (1977). Zoobenthos data from the Southern Beaufort Sea, 1971-1975. Fisheries and Environment Canada. Fisheries and Marine Service Data report 41

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f2fefe8b-58fa-4b2e-9ddd-756664b5ddd3.  Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Marine

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Contacts

Russ Hopcroft
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans
Cheryl Clarke-Hopcroft
  • Point Of Contact
University of Alaska Fairbanks; School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences; Institute of Marine Science

Geographic Coverage

Southern Beaufort Sea

Bounding Coordinates South West [68.97, -139.61], North East [71.37, -129.22]

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose n 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.The report is in press and a full citation will be provide in August 2018: Baker, E., Beazley, L., McMillan, A., Rowsell, J. and Kenchington, E. 2018.
Alternative Identifiers f2fefe8b-58fa-4b2e-9ddd-756664b5ddd3
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