Seastar Species Records from Marion Dufresne MD03 Kerguelen Expedition

Asteroids from French subantarctic islands: records from the Marion Dufresne MD03 expeditions is a digital species and station list for seastars collected during the MD03 expedition in the Kerguelen islands. The dataset was created by the organization SCIOPS and sourced from NASA's Earthdata platform. Specific details on record count, date of collection, and update frequency are not provided.

Use Cases

• Classify asteroid species based on collection station metadata.
• Map species distribution across the Kerguelen islands using station location data.
• Analyze expedition sampling effort by correlating station lists with species records.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific taxonomic group (Asteroidea) from a defined expedition.
• Provides structured species and station lists for a remote geographic region.

Limitations

• Sample size and total number of records are unknown.
• Lacks detailed column definitions and sample data for validation.
• Temporal coverage and data freshness are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

SCIOPS, via NASA Earthdata (nasa_earthdata).

Collection Method

Collected during the Marion Dufresne MD03 expedition.

Geography

Kerguelen islands, French subantarctic territories.