Faunal data: Long-term environmental monitoring for assessment of change: measurement inconsistencies over time and potential solutions

Data on soft-sediment macrobenthos from 11 regional stations collected at the southern part of the Norwegian continental shelf (Region I, i.e. the Ekofisk-region) from six sampling occasions during the period 1996-2011. The data were extracted from the Environmental Monitoring Database (the MOD-database), owned by the Norwegian Oil and Gas Association. We used a version of the MOD-database from March 2013.