Different dataset added toghether to make a common database for the workshop in Oslo and for the upcoming worskhop on Crete.

Investigate biodiversity across Europe: The database consist of bottom-dwelling macro benthos collected in Arctic (Franz Josef Land, Pechora Sea, Svalbard),along the Norwegian Continental Shelf, in Irish Sea, Ionan Sea, Aegean Sea, and the Black Sea.

3,616 taxa and 1,064,225 individuals including 26,313 juvenile in 1,243 sediment samples.

Equipment Surface (m2) Samples Replicates

Van Veen Grab 0.1 518 2 – 5 grabs, mostly 5.

Van Veen Grab 0.04 33 1

Ponar Grab 0.05 39 1

Ocean Grab 0.25 50 1

Boxcorer 0.25 16 2

Hand-operated Van Veen Grab 0.08 18 1

Hand operated van Veen Grab 0.05 64 1

Hand operated grab type Ponar 0.045 70 1

Hand operated Smith-McIntyre sampler 0.1 14 1

Hand operated van Veen Grab; Scuba diving; Free diving; Otter trawl - 421 “p/a”

1937 – 2000