Community composition and distribution of epi- and suprabenthic macrofauna in the bathyal, abyssal, and hadal zones of the northern North Pacific.

This dataset presents the station data of the epibethic sledge trawls conducted during AleutBio expedition as well as raw abundance data of the macrofaunal groups recorded in the samples. They supplement the following publication: Brandt A., Jażdżewska A.M., Kaiser S., Błażewicz M., Gerken S., Głuchowska K., Kelch A., Preikschardt M., Knauber H., Kohlenbach K., Saeedi H., Tandberg A.H.S, Di Franco D. 2025. Community composition and distribution of epi- and suprabenthic macrofauna in the bathyal, abyssal, and hadal zones of the northern North Pacific. Progress in Oceanography 230: 103376. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103376. The material was collected and sorted within the framework of the AleutBio project, which was financed by the PTJ (German Ministry for Science and Education), as well as grant 03G0293A to Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt. AleutBio Project by the PTJ (German Ministry for Science and Education), grant 03G0293A to Prof. Dr. Angelika Brandt, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum as well as Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. The study of Amphipoda collected during the expedition and analysed in the publication was supported by the grant from National Science Center (Poland): 2022/45/B/NZ8/02667.