88 stations have been sampled with a modified reineck box corer (0.02 m² surface area, 2 replicates per station) and sieved through 1 mm meshes. The residual fauna was sorted...
This dataset is about: Production as carbon of macrozoobenthos in surface sediments sampled during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-V/1. Depth = penetration depth of gear (max = 45 cm).
The risk assessment of seafloor massive sulfide (SMS) mining on meiobenthic organisms, specifically on soft-sediment meiofauna, is impeded by a lack of knowledge on the biology and ecology of these co
