Table 1 Metadata Records

From: Regional surveys of macrobenthic shelf invertebrate communities in Onslow Bay, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Locality

Samples

Field Seasons

June 2011

Nov. 2011

May 2012

April 2013

Depth (m)

Latitude (decimal degrees)

Longitude (decimal degrees)

1

3

1

0

3

0

0

18.9

−76.67457

34.57305

2

5

2

0

4

1

0

18.7

−76.66083

34.58407

3

8

2

0

5

3

0

18.2

−76.63953

34.60843

4

7

2

0

4

3

0

16.6

−76.62340

34.62818

5

4

1

0

4

0

0

11.6

−76.58260

34.65860

6

4

1

0

4

0

0

18.4

−76.66190

34.58105

7

4

1

0

4

0

0

18.4

−76.64855

34.59813

8

7

2

0

3

4

0

15.2

−76.60395

34.63938

9

5

2

0

2

3

0

7.9

−76.57627

34.65788

10

3

1

0

3

0

0

8.2

−76.54587

34.63763

11

7

2

0

5

2

0

9.3

−76.61390

34.67830

12

4

2

0

1

3

0

8.7

−76.54757

34.62415

13

5

2

0

3

2

0

5.3

−76.68693

34.80010

14

8

3

1

4

3

0

5.8

−76.67603

34.76252

15

8

3

2

3

3

0

5.5

−76.69370

34.72408

16

11

2

0

5

6

0

13.6

−76.66548

34.68128

17

6

1

0

6

0

0

6.6

−76.68642

34.68845

18

8

2

0

5

3

0

7.8

−76.70923

34.69100

19

6

2

0

4

2

0

17

−76.64442

34.67498

20

4

1

0

4

0

0

15.2

−76.63438

34.65047

21

8

3

2

3

3

0

8.4

−76.63570

34.69213

22

7

2

0

4

3

0

5.1

−76.56282

34.68957

23

3

1

0

0

3

0

16

−76.72652

34.67292

24

3

1

0

0

3

0

15.2

−76.67270

34.66258

25

3

1

0

0

3

0

16.4

−76.67737

34.64325

26

3

1

0

0

3

0

17.1

−76.68113

34.62642

27

3

1

0

0

3

0

17.9

−76.68563

34.60527

28

3

1

0

0

3

0

18.4

−76.68885

34.59005

29

6

2

0

0

3

3

17.7

−76.74262

34.59920

30

3

1

0

0

3

0

17.4

−76.74145

34.61365

31

3

1

0

0

3

0

16.2

−76.73930

34.63697

32

3

1

0

0

3

0

17.1

−76.73627

34.65765

33

3

1

0

0

0

3

16.3

−76.57508

34.59567

34

3

1

0

0

0

3

17.9

−76.59653

34.58213

35

2

1

0

0

0

2

18

−76.61100

34.56682

36

2

1

0

0

0

2

18.9

−76.68190

34.56535

37

2

1

0

0

0

2

19

−76.71693

34.55383

38

3

1

0

0

0

3

18.4

−76.74387

34.57403

39

3

1

0

0

0

3

17.1

−76.74387

34.57403

40

3

1

0

0

0

3

16.9

−76.79652

34.62135

41

5

1

0

0

0

5

16.9

−76.80327

34.64753

42

4

1

0

0

0

4

13.3

−76.80017

34.68582

43

4

1

0

0

0

4

16.5

−76.80238

34.66863

44

5

1

0

0

0

5

17

−76.83778

34.61485

45

3

1

0

0

0

3

16.9

−76.84503

34.63537

46

3

1

0

0

0

3

16

−76.84560

34.65510

47

3

1

0

0

0

3

13.2

−76.84283

34.67935

48

3

1

0

0

0

3

11.5

−76.88408

34.67898

49

3

1

0

0

0

3

15.8

−76.90047

34.66692

50

3

1

0

0

0

3

17

−76.83987

34.59897

51

10

1

0

0

0

10

17.1

−76.90308

34.64302

52

3

1

0

0

0

3

17

−76.90005

34.61767

  1. The number of samples (‘Samples’) collected at each locality in each field season (June 2011, November 2011, May 2012, and April 2013). Latitude and longitude are in decimal degrees.