Instrument: Epibenthic Sled

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External Identifier: skos:broadMatch: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/24/

Description

An epibenthic sled is a semi-quantitative bottom-sampling device designed to trawl just above the bottom at the sediment water interface (the epibenthic zone). The sled consists of a rectangular steel frame with a mesh net (often more than one) attached to it. Towed along the ocean floor, its weight scrapes into the benthos, collecting any organisms on the surface or in the first few centimeters of sediment. It also collects the organisms in the water column just above the benthos.

Descriptions from WHOI and Census of Marine Life.

Datasets (8)

Dataset Name	PI-Supplied Description	PI-Supplied Name
Asteroids and Holothurians Table 1: Asteroid species - Presence and absence of Asteroid species by station in the deep-sea East and West Atlantic from 1977-1999 (Deep Sea Benthic Dynamics project)	Gear code Gear type BN1.5/3F Epibenthic sled BN1.5/3M Epibenthic sled BN1.5/C Epibenthic sled BN1.5/P Epibenthic sled BNC Epibenthic sled BNF Epibenthic sled GT Otter trawl OT Otter trawl OTSB14 Otter trawl OTSB14D Otter trawl ST Otter trawl	Epibenthic sled
Asteroids and Holothurians: Table 2: Holothurian species - Number of individuals by station in the deep-sea East and West Atlantic from 1977-1985 (Deep Sea Benthic Dynamics project)	Gear code Gear type BN1.5/3F Epibenthic sled BN1.5/3M Epibenthic sled BN1.5/C Epibenthic sled BN1.5/P Epibenthic sled BNC Epibenthic sled BNF Epibenthic sled GT Otter trawl OT Otter trawl OTSB14 Otter trawl OTSB14D Otter trawl ST Otter trawl	Epibenthic Sled
Bivalves Table 3: Presence and absence of Bivalve species from the North American Basin in the deep-sea East and West Atlantic from 1997-1999 (Deep Sea Benthic Dynamics project)		Epibenthic Sled
Bivalves Table 4: Information on sampling stations from the Western European Basin in the deep-sea East and West Atlantic from 1997-1999 (Deep Sea Benthic Dynamics project)		Epibenthic Sled
Collection and locality information by taxon of Hemichordata from global sites, Table 1, Cannon et al (2013) Biol. Bull. (Antarctic Inverts project)
Compound specific isotope data of amino acids for abyssal macrofauna, megafauna, sediments, sediment traps, and in situ filtered particles at Station ALOHA off Hawaii and Station M off California from 2019 to 2020		Brenke epibenthic sled
Counts of Protobranch bivalves collected in a series of epibenthic sled samples taken on R/V Endeavor cruise EN447 in the Western North Atlantic (34-39N, 68-70W) in 2008 (ENAB project)	Sampling was conducted using an epibenthic sled. 25 stations were sampled along a transect from south of Cape Cod to near Bermuda and ranging in depth from 1000 to 5200m	epibenthic sled
Sea spider Pallenopsis sampling sites and COI NCBI accessions from Table 1, Harder et al (2016) Polar Biology (Antarctic Inverts project)