Abstract:
A compilation of macrofauna data collected around the Gulf of Mexico. The data from the following six 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 dataset 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). The original data file submitted (Version 1) was published on 2018-11-12: Macrofauna_ALL_GOM_Version_1_Published_2018-11-12. The updated data file (Version 2) was published on 2024-05-24: Macrofauna_ALL_GOM_Version_2_Updated_2024-05-24.
Data Parameters and Units:
Project (NRDA, Ixtoc, DGOMB, GOOMEX, SEEPS, NGOMCSS), station, latitude (decimal degrees), longitude (decimal degrees), depth (meters), date (dd-mm-yyyy), replicate number (Rep), Diversity as Richness (Mac_s, number of taxa (S) per core, where taxa are at the higher (phylum, class, and order) level), Abundance (Mac_nm2, number of individuals per meter square), Diversity as H’ (Mac_Hprime, Shannon index, per core), Evenness as J’ (Mac_Jprime, Pielou index, per core), Diversity as N1 (Mac_N1, Hill index, per core).
Methods:
A compilation of past field collections:
NRDA: Data from Reuscher et al., (2017) for locations in the northern Gulf of Mexico near the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) site.
Ixtoc: Data from C-IMAGE-II for locations in the southern Gulf of Mexico near the Ixtoc oil spill site.
DGOMB: Data from Haedrich et al., (2008 ) for the northern Gulf of Mexico.
GOOMEX: Data from Montagna and Harper, (1996) for the northwestern Gulf of Mexico near five hydrocarbon production platforms.
SEEPS: Data from Washburn et al., (2018) for the northern Gulf of Mexico.
NGOMCSS: Data from Gallaway (1988) for location in the central Gulf of Mexico.
Provenance and Historical References:
Gallaway, Benny J. (ed.). 1988. Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Study, Final Report : Year 4. Volume II: Synthesis Report. Final report submitted to the Minerals Management Service, New Orleans, LA. Contract No. 14-12-0001-30212. OCS Study/MMS 88-0053. 318 p.
Montagna, P.A. and D.E. Harper, Jr. 1996. Benthic infaunal long-term response to offshore production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 53(11), 2567–2588. doi:10.1139/f96-215
Haedrich, R.L., Devine, J.A. and Kendall, V.J., 2008. Predictors of species richness in the deep-benthic fauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 55(24-26), pp.2650-2656. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.09.003
Reuscher, M.G., Baguley, J.G., Conrad-Forrest, N., Cooksey, C., Hyland, J.L., Lewis, C., Montagna, P.A., Ricker, R.W., Rohal, M. and Washburn, T., 2017. Temporal patterns of Deepwater Horizon impacts on the benthic infauna of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope. PloS one, 12(6), p.e0179923. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0179923
Rowe, G.T. and Kennicutt, M.C., 2008. Introduction to the deep Gulf of Mexico Benthos program. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 55(24-26), pp.2536-2540. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.09.002
Washburn, T.W., Demopoulos, A.W. and Montagna, P.A., 2018. Macrobenthic infaunal communities associated with deep‐sea hydrocarbon seeps in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology, 39(3), p.e12508. doi:10.1111/maec.12508
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