Meta-analysis of Gulf of Mexico Macrofauna Data from 1983-11-26 to 2015-08-09

A compilation of macrofauna data collected around the Gulf of Mexico. The data from the following 6 projects is included: National Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA), Deep Gulf of Mexico Benthos Program (DGOMB), C-IMAGE-II Ixtoc project, Gulf of Mexico Offshore Operations Monitoring Experiment (GOOMEX), Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Study (NGOMCSS), and Oil Seeps (SEEPS). The date of collection ranges from 1983-2015. The data-set includes project name, station name, station location, station depth, sample date, replicate number, richness, abundance, Shannon's Diversity, Evenness, and Hill's N1 Diversity. Meta-analysis of Gulf of Mexico meiofauna data collected from 1983 to 2015 is available under GRIIDC UDI R6.x805.000:0061 (doi:10.7266/n7-7247-vx96).