Environmental data layers for a 5 year period before and after the calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue

Surface Currents Phytoplankton biomass and diversity Invertebrate abundance and distribution

The dataset contains raster files (.grd) for food-availability and predicted distribution of suspension feeder abundances averaged across a five year time-period before (2005-2009) and after (2011-2016) the calving of the Mertz Glacier Tongue in 2010. The following data are included:

sinking, settling and horizontal flux of food-particles along the seafloor
suspension feeder abundances and standard deviation of the predicted distribution All data has been generated as part of the paper: Jansen et al. (2018) Mapping Antarctic suspension feeder abundances and seafloor-food availability, and modelling their change after a major glacier calving. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

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Temporal extent	2005-01-01 – 2016-12-31
Date (publication)	2018-07-03
Status	completed
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	This metadata record is publicly available.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show