North Atlantic and Arctic Cumacea sampled during the IceAGE (2011) and PASCAL (2017) project
Citation
Uhlir, C.; Meland, K.; Glenner, H.; Brandt, A.; Brix, S. (2021). North Atlantic and Arctic Cumacea sampled during the IceAGE (2011) and PASCAL (2017) project. Marine Data Archive https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/506 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.Description
This datasets contributes to a better understanding of diversity in small peracarid crustacean and their possible distribution patterns in remote deep-sea regions. It contains specimen ocurrence records of the taxon Cumacea sampled with diverse benthic gears (epibenthic sledges, box corer) on the Yermak Plateau north of Svalbard during the PASCAL project with RV Polarstern in 2017 and during the IceAGE expedition IceAGE1 in 2011 in deep sea regions of the Nordic GIN-Seas (Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian Sea).
Additional info
The specimens investigated on morphological and molecular basis in this study were sampled in the course of different projects: The IceAGE program (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology, Brix et al. 2014a) is an ongoing research project (IceAGE 2 in 2013, IceAGE-RR in 2018, IceAGE 3 in 2020) which was established as a follow up of the very successful BIOFAR (Biology of the Faroe Islands, Nørrevang et al. 1994; Gerken and Watling 1999) and BIOICE (Benthic Invertebrates of Icelandic waters, Omarsdottir et al. 2013) projects. It is aimed to develop into a long-term study to get an overview of the biodiversity in this extremely diverse region around Iceland with a variety of different habitats and environmental challenges in its adjacent waters. Based on genetic and morphological diversity, it aims to create an inventory of the fauna as elementary knowledge for a comprehensive understanding of possible responses to changing climate conditions in marine environments (Brix et al. 2014a). The focus of the expedition PS106/1 (ARK-XXXI/1.1, 24th of May – 21st of June, 2017) off northern Svalbard onboard the RV Polarstern in course of PASCAL (Physical feedbacks of Arctic PBL, Sea ice, Cloud and Aerosol) was an interdisciplinary approach for studying the interaction of different Arctic feedback mechanisms based on atmospheric, oceanographic, physical and biological studies (Macke and Flores 2018). In this context the vessel was attached to an ice floe during a two-week passive drifting according to the ocean’s current as a preliminary trial-expedition to the first year-round MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition (Sep/2019 – Sep/2020).Taxonomic Coverages
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1137
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Cumacearank: order
Geographic Coverages
A, North Atlantic
ANE, Greenland Sea
ANE, Iceland Sea
ANE, Norwegian Sea
EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Carolin Uhliroriginator
Senckenberg am Meer; German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research
DE
email: carolin.uhlir@senckenberg.de
Saskia Brix
originator
Senckenberg am Meer; German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research
DE
email: sbrix@senckenberg.de
Kenneth Meland
originator
University of Bergen; Department of Biology
Henrik Glenner
originator
University of Bergen; Department of Biology
Angelika Brandt
originator
Goethe-Universität
metadata author
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
BE
email: info@vliz.be
homepage: https://www.vliz.be
Carolin Uhlir
administrative point of contact
Senckenberg am Meer; German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research
DE
email: carolin.uhlir@senckenberg.de