Instrument: Epibenthic Sled

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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

Dataset Name	Brief Description
Asteroids and Holothurians - Table 1 - Asteroid species - Presence 1 and absence 0 of Asteroid species by station	Asteroids and Holothurians - Table 1 - Asteroid species - Presence (1) and absence (0) of Asteroid species by station
Asteroids and Holothurians - Table 2 - Holothurian species - Number of individuals by station	Asteroids and Holothurians - Table 2 - Holothurian species - Number of individuals by station
Bivalves - Table 3 - Bivalve species - Information on sampling stations from the North American Basin	Bivalves - Table 3 - Bivalve species - Presence 1 and absence 0 of Bivalve species from the North American Basin
Bivalves - Table 4 - Bivalve species - Information on sampling stations from the Western European Basin	Bivalves - Table 4 - Bivalve species - Information on sampling stations from the Western European Basin
Cannon_2013_T1: Collection and locality information	Collection and locality information by taxon
Compound specific isotope data	Compound specific isotope data
ENAB 2008 Protobranchs	Counts of Protobranch bivalves collected in a series of epibenthic sled samples taken in the western North Atlantic.
Harder_2016_T1: sea spider Pallenopsis sampling sites and COI NCBI accessions	Sea spider Pallenopsis sampling sites and COI NCBI accessions

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Instrument: Epibenthic Sled