Locations and associated attributes of circumpolar Muskox studies. Attributes include animal count, population estimate, estimate error and associated report citation. 117 occurrences

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. 9,594 occurrences

This dataset comprises 114 records of Bryozoans from museum collections. Distributional data were gathered from a number of museum collection including the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg; The Natural History Museum in London, UK; The Natural History Museum in Paris; The Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa and The Manchester Museum, U.K. Additionally samples collected by the Institute of Oceanology were used. 113 occurrences

Dataset of macrozoobenthos communities of the Lomonossov Ridge, 1995-1998 1,677 occurrences

Dataset of cryopelagi Amphipods from the Arctic Sea. 11 occurrences

Dataset of macrofauna sampled between Northern Svalbard and the Makarov Basin, as a basis for understanding aspects of the benthic ecology of the Arctic Ocean. 266 occurrences

To assess sea-ice fauna In Frobisher Bay, Arctic Canada. 287 occurrences

Data of macrobenthic fauna of the eastern Laptev Sea. 481 occurrences

Dataset from a macrozoobenthic community study conducted in an East Greenlandic fjord (Young Sound 7418’N; 2015’W) during the ice-free period from July to August in 1996 241 occurrences

Zooplankton from the Chukchi and Beaufort seas in the fall of 2002 during the R/V Mirai cruise. 468 occurrences