6f384492-200f-4759-a818-b7352dbf7266 urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-11-17T05:34:04 creation ISO 19115 2016 antFOCE Hard Substrate Fauna data sets 6f384492-200f-4759-a818-b7352dbf7266 Metadata record AAS_4127_antFOCE_HardSubstrateFauna contains all data sets relating to the fauna sampled from hard substrates during the antFOCE experiment, including recruitment tiles, artificial substrate units and biofilm slides. Refer to antFOCE report section 4.5 for deployment, sampling and on-station analysis details. https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4127_antFOCE_Project4127 Background The antFOCE experimental system was deployed in O’Brien Bay, approximately 5 kilometres south of Casey station, East Antarctica, in the austral summer of 2014/15. Surface and sub-surface (in water below the sea ice) infrastructure allowed controlled manipulation of seawater pH levels (reduced by 0.4 pH units below ambient) in 2 chambers placed on the sea floor over natural benthic communities. Two control chambers (no pH manipulation) and two open plots (no chambers, no pH manipulation) were also sampled to compare to the pH manipulated (acidified) treatment chambers. Details of the antFOCE experiment can be found in the report – “antFOCE 2014/15 – Experimental System, Deployment, Sampling and Analysis”. This report and a diagram indicating how the various antFOCE data sets relate to each other are available at: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4127_antFOCE_Project4127 {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[110.12012, -66.5035], [110.94128, -66.5035], [110.94128, -66.04127], [110.12012, -66.04127], [110.12012, -66.5035]]]} 110.12012 110.94128 -66.5035 -66.04127 AMD AMD/AU CEOS CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CARBON DIOXIDE EPIFAUNA FIELD INVESTIGATION FIELD SURVEYS GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR HARD SUBSTRATE MACROINVERTEBRATES OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN OCEAN ACIDIFICATION PROJECT HOME PAGE documentDigital Public information for AAS project AAS_4127 HTML VIEW RELATED INFORMATION documentDigital Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset. HTML Creative Commons by Attribution logo documentDigital PNG