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Meiofauna and nematodes from the Atacama Slope and Trench
Citation
Danovaro, R. (1997). Meiofauna and nematodes from the Atacama slope and trench. Polytechnic University of Marche; Faculty of Sciences; Department of Marine Sciences, Italy. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/883

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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
The meiofaunal abundance, biomass, community structure and nematode diversity were investigated in relation to the spatial distribution of the potential food sources in the Atacama trench and open slope (South Pacific Ocean).

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Benthos, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Deep sea, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Meiobenthos, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Trenches (oceanic), WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISE, Chile, Atacama, Nematoda

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -71,35; MinLat: -23,7767 - MaxLong: -70,6233; MaxLat: -23,25 [WGS84]
ISE, Chile, Atacama [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
September 1997
Not relevant

Taxonomic coverage
Nematoda [WoRMS]

Parameters

Biopolymeric carbon (C)
Carbohydrates
Chlorophyll a
Count of Nematoda
Lipids
Median grain size
Phaeopigments
Protein
Total organic carbon (TOC)

Contributors
Polytechnic University of Marche; Faculty of Sciences; Department of Marine Sciences, moredata creatordata ownerdata manager

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
MANUELA: MANUELA Database, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Gambi, C. et al. (2003). Biodiversity of nematode assemblages from deep-sea sediments of the Atacama Slope and Trench (South Pacific Ocean). Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 50(1): 103-117. dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0637(02)00143-7, more
Danovaro, R. et al. (2002). Meiofauna hotspot in the Atacama Trench, eastern South Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 49(5): 843-857, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Release date: 2009-03-10
Metadatarecord created: 2007-11-21
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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