These data give - for the first time - an overview of the meiofauna that inhabits the slope and the abyssal plains in Antarctic waters to a depth of 5 200 m.

A quantitative small-scale snap-shot investigation on an intertidal sandflat in Jade Bay (North Sea) was conducted.

The main question in this research was how Harpacticoid copepod communities differ in species composition and diversity on a north to south gradient in the Western Baltic area and what factors might explain these differences

The primary objective for developing a CeDAMar database is to generate a map of biological abyssal sampling stations in the World Ocean. These data represent the European coverage.

This experimental research in glacial Kongsfjorden (Spitzbergen) investigates the long term colonisation capacities of Arctic soft bottom meiofauna.

Benthic isopods from this data set were collected during the IceAGE 3 expedition (SO276) on board RV Sonne in July 2020 with an epibenthic sledge (EBS). A total of seven EBS samples were taken in two areas of the Aegir ridge (Norwegian basin) at depths between 681 m to 3,702 m. The benthic samples taken are the first from the deep seabed within the Aegir ridge and therefore represent an important data set for assessing the diversity of the deep Nordic seas and their relationship to water mass distribution and depth. Isopoda collected by the EBS contained 1,978 specimens divided into eleven families, 25 genera and at least 42 species. Munnopsidae were by far the most dominant family contributing 59.1% to total isopod specimens, followed by the Munnidae (18.3) and Katianiridae (17.8). The remaining families were present with less than 5% of total Isopoda.

This dataset is a stationlist of the 3 cruises which were undertaken in the framework of the ICEAGE project (Icelandic marine Animals: Genetics and Ecology). This station list contains all stations of the M85/3 (2011-08-27/09-28) , POS456 (2013-07-20/08-04) and MER75 (2018-06-29/08-08) cruises. The samples taken at these stations we analysed for the presence and abundance of isopods and amphipods for which the data can be found in other datasets linked to this dataset record.

The North Atlantic and Arctic Isopoda dataset contains three parts: 1. Distribution records collected from literature; 2. Distribution records of specimens collected by the BIOICE project (Benthic Invertebrates of Icelandic waters 1992-2004); 3. Distribution records of specimens collected by the IceAGE project (Icelandic marine animals: Genetics and Ecology, since 2011). This dataset contains distribution data regarding the 3nd group, isopods occurrences sampled during the IceAGE project

The North Atlantic and Arctic Isopoda dataset contains three parts: 1. Distribution records collected from literature; 2. Distribution records of specimens collected by the BIOICE project (Benthic Invertebrates of Icelandic waters 1992-2004); 3. Distribution records of specimens collected by the IceAGE project (Icelandic marine animals: Genetics and Ecology, since 2011). This dataset contains distribution data regarding the 2nd group, isopods occurrences sampled during the BIOICE project

This datasets contributes to a better understanding of diversity in small peracarid crustacean and their possible distribution patterns in remote deep-sea regions. It contains specimen ocurrence records of the taxon Cumacea sampled with diverse benthic gears (epibenthic sledges, box corer) on the Yermak Plateau north of Svalbard during the PASCAL project with RV Polarstern in 2017 and during the IceAGE expedition IceAGE1 in 2011 in deep sea regions of the Nordic GIN-Seas (Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian Sea).