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During the third leg of the “European Polarstern Study” (EPOS leg 3) in the austral summer season 1989, benthic macrofaunal communities were sampled from the Elephant Island area (61° southern latitude) and from Kapp Norvegia (71° southern latitude) to Halley Bay (75°30′ southern latitude) using a commercial bottom trawl and an Agassiz trawl. Thirty-six trawl samples from a depth range of about 200–2,000 m were considered, with most of the samples being from the shelf and upper slope. Multivariate analysis techniques (clustering and TWIN-SPAN) discriminated between an eastern and a southern community in which parallel subgroups can be distinguished at increasing distance from the ice shelf.
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Data presented here were collected during the European Polarstern Study (EPOS) sponsored by the European Science Foundation
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Galéron, J., Herman, R.L., Arnaud, P.M. et al. Macrofaunal communities on the continental shelf and slope of the southeastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biol 12, 283–290 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00238271
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