Does anyone know of any large databases or datasets that contain species-specific (or genus-specific) paired biomass and abundance data from benthic invertebrate community samples? I am interested in surveys from all types of water and substrate, although I am most interested in Northeast US estuaries.
So far, I am only aware of one large data repository here: http://www.baybenthos.versar.com/. I have come across several other databases, but none so far has had paired biomass and abundance data for all species or genera.
You can try:
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/information_and_inventories/biological_data/
for various UK data sets
or
http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/
for data from offshore developments. At lot of surveys no longer collect species level Biomass data as using it in the various indicators has fallen out of fashion a bit or perhaps cost! I have few from Soft sediments I can dig up.
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