Benthic meiofauna diversity and nematoda functional feeding groups on the Northeast Greenland (NEG) shelf during POLARSTERN cruise PS109

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Between September and October 2017, MUC cores were deployed at various locations across the Northeast Greenland (NEG) shelf with R/V Polarstern during PS109. Samples for meiofauna were collected with a cut-off 10 ml syringe (area 1.89 m²) that was inserted to 5 cm depth sediment depth in the MUC core, and subsequently sliced in 5 horizons of 1 cm. Afterwards, meiofauna were extracted from the samples by triple density centrifugation with the colloidal silica polymer LUDOX TM 40 (Heip et al., 1985) and rinsed with freshwater on stacked 1 mm and 32 µm mesh sieves. The fraction retained on the 32 µm mesh sieve was preserved in 4 % Li2CO3-buffered formalin and stained with Rose Bengal. All metazoan meiobenthic organisms were classified at higher taxonomic levels and counted under a stereoscopic microscope (Leica MZ 8, 16x5x). All Nematodes of each sample were handpicked with a fine needle, transferred to glycerine (De Grisse I, II and III) (Seinhorst, 1959) , mounted on glass slides, identified to genus level and allocated to functional feeding groups based on Wieser, 1953 (as selective deposit feeders - 1A, non-selective deposit feeders - 1B, epistratum feeders - 2A and predators/scavengers - 2B).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.959825
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00005
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Creator Da Costa Monteiro, Luana; Lins, Lidia; Braeckman, Ulrike ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Research Foundation of Flanders https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003130 Crossref Funder ID 1201720N ; The Research Council of Norway https://doi.org/10.13039/501100005416 Crossref Funder ID 276730 The Nansen Legacy
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 2 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-19.318W, 76.800S, -7.932E, 80.318N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-09-17T15:16:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-10-04T19:13:00Z