©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.To acquire a current understanding of the potential benthic prey community to durophagous predators we sampled the abundance and distribution of the benthos of Harrington Sound and Flatts Inlet, Bermuda. This was done using hand-based excavation surveys, which were conducted by divers on SCUBA at historic and new sampling locations in the region. Data were collected by the project team in October 2022.
Day trips aboard a small fieldwork boat in Harrington Sound, Bermuda, from the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo dock, during October, 2022.
We dived on multiple locations in Harrington Sound and Flatts inlet using teams of 2 or 3 divers. Following Ajemian et al. (2012), divers excavated 0.25 m^2 quadrats that were placed randomly at three locations along a 25 m long transect tape. Sediments were excavated by hand to a depth of approximately 15 cm, with all invertebrates placed into 8 mm mesh bags.
Ajemian, M., Hampton, C. M. (2025) Benthic sampling survey data from Harrington Sound and Flatts Inlet, Bermuda in October of 2022. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2025-06-09 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/964199 [access date]
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