Ecological Archives M080-015-A1

Mario Lebrato, Debora Iglesias-Rodríguez, Richard A. Feely, Dana Greeley, Daniel O. B. Jones, Nadia Suarez-Bosche, Richard S. Lampitt, Joan E. Cartes, Darryl R. H. Green, and Belinda Alker. 2010. Global contribution of echinoderms to the marine carbon cycle: CaCO3 budget and benthic compartments. Ecological Monographs 80:441–467.

Appendix A. A table showing global echinoderms database details along with the sampling method used to collect samples, and estimate density and biomass, and a figure showing GLODAP bottle data distribution used to estimate the calcite compensation depth (Ω = 1) with depth in Fig. 4.

TABLE A1. Global echinoderms database details along with the sampling method used to collect samples, estimate density (D) and biomass (B). See appropriate papers for more detail.

Reference

Location

Sampling method

Available data

Ambrose et al. (2001)

Arctic Ocean

ROV (video)

B

Aronson (1989, 1991)

NE Atlantic

Visually (quadrats)

D

Attrill et al. (2004)

Brazil

Scuba diving (quadrats)

˝

Bak et al. (1984)

Caribbean

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Barille-Boyer et al. (2004)

NE Atlantic

Visually (quadrats)

˝

Billett et al. (2001)

˝

Semi–balloon otter trawl

˝

Blaber et al. (1987)

Tasman Sea

Beam trawl

B

Bluhm et al. (1998)

Barents Sea

Still photographs

D

Bolaños et al. (2005)

Costa Rica

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Bowden (2005)

Southern Ocean

Still photographs

˝

Brooks et al. (2007)

Florida Keys

Manned submersible

˝

Carranza et al. (2007)

Uruguay

Visually (quadrats)

˝

Chiantore et al. (2006)

Ross Sea

Van Veen grab/Agassiz trawl

B and D

Chiappone et al. (2002)

Florida Keys

Scuba diving (transects)

D

Dare (1982)

NE Atlantic

Visually (observations)

˝

Denisenko et al. (2003)

Barents Sea

Ocean grab/Van Veen grab

B

Drolet et al. (2004)

NW Atlantic

Scuba diving

D

Duineveld et al. (1993)

Mauritania

Beam trawl

˝

Ellis and Rogers (2000)

NE Atlantic

˝

B

Fabricius ( 1994)

Australia

Steel frame (quadrats)

D

Feder et al. (2005)

Arctic Ocean

Van Veen grab

B

Fedra et al. (1976)

Mediterranean Sea

Video and photo camera

D

Fjukmoen (2006)

Vietnam

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Freese et al. (1999)

NE Pacific

Bottom trawl

˝

Fujita and Ohta (1989, 1990)

NE Japan

Stereo camera system

˝

Guidetti et al. (2004)

NE Atlantic

Visually (quadrats)

˝

Gutt and Piepenburg (1991)

Weddell Sea

Still camera

˝

Haedrich et al. (1980)

NW Atlantic

Benthic trawl

˝

Hamazaki er atl. (2005)

Bering Sea

Bottom trawl

B

Howell et al. (2002, 2004)

NE Atlantic

Epibenthic sledge and otter trawl

D

Hughes et al. (1985)

Caribbean

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Hunte et al. (1986)

˝

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Jones et al. (2007a)

Weddell Sea

Towed camera phototraphy

˝

Jones et al. (2007b)

N Atlantic

˝

˝

Jones (unpublished)

N/W/E Atlantic

ROV video

˝

Kroncke and Turkay (2003)

Angola Basin

Box coring

˝

Lamare and Barker (2001)

New Zealand

Visually

˝

Lampitt et al. (unpublished)

NE Atlantic

Bottom trawl

B

Lampitt (unpublished)

NW Atlantic

Bottom trawl

D

Lawrence and Kafri (1979)

Caribbean

Visually (quadrats)

˝

Laydoo (1984)

Tobago

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Lebrato and Jones (2009)

Ivory Coast

ROV video

˝

Lefevre (2003)

NE Atlantic

See references therein a

˝

Lessios et al. (1984b)

Panama

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Levitan (1991)

Caribbean

˝

˝

Lewis et al. (1985)

˝

˝

˝

Messing (1994)

Australia

Scuba photography

˝

Mexatas and Giffin (2004)

NW Atlantic

ROV (quadrats)

˝

Migne et al. (1998)

NE Atlantic

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Moya et al. (2003)

˝

Agassiz trawl

˝

Piepenburg and Schmid (1997)

Arctic Ocean

Still camera

B and D

Piepenburg et al. (1997)

Arctic Ocean/Weddell Sea

Agassiz trawl

D

Privitera et al. (2005)

Mediterranean Sea

Visually (quadrats)

˝

Ruhl (2007)

NE Pacific

Benthic sled camera

˝

Sala et al. (1998)

Mediterranean Sea

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Sloan and Aldridge (1981)

NE Atlantic

Scuba diving (counts)

˝

Sloan and Bodungen (1980)

NW Atlantic

Scuba diving (transects)

˝

Summers and Nybakken (2000)

NE Pacific

Box coring

˝

Tegner and Dayton (1981)

˝

Visually (quadrats)

˝

Tokeshi (2002)

NW Pacific

Submersible (photographs)

˝

Turon et al. (1995)

Mediterranean Sea

Scuba diving and quadrats

˝

Tuya et al. (2007)

Canary Islands

Scuba diving (quadrats)

˝

Verling et al. (2005)

NE Atlantic

Snorkeling (quadrats)

˝

Wares (2001)

NW/NE Atlantic

Visually (quadrats)

B

Warner (1971)

NE Atlantic

˝

D

Wlodarska-Kowalczuk et al. (2005)

˝

Van Veen grab

D

Wolfson et al. (1979)

NE Pacific

Scuba diving

B

Yatsuya and Nakahara (2004)

NW Pacific

Transects

˝

Zolotarev (2002)

Barents Sea

Dredging (tow)

˝

 

FigA1
 

   FIG. A1. GLODAP bottle data distribution used to estimate the calcite compensation depth (Ω = 1) with depth in Fig. 4.


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