Data for thesis "Spatial and temporal variation in megafaunal biodiversity in natural and impacted abyssal environments"

Data files for the work presented in the thesis "Spatial and Temporal Variation in Megafaunal Biodiversity in Natural and Impacted Abyssal Environments" as well as used in the following publications: Fleming, B.F.M., Simon-Lledó, E., Benoist, N., O’Malley, B., Jones, D.O.B. 2025. Influence of seabed heterogeneity on benthic megafaunal community patterns in abyssal nodule fields. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 13(1): 00049. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2024.00049 Jones, D.O., Arias, M.B., Van Audenhaege, L., Blackbird, S., Boolukos, C., Bribiesca-Contreras, G., Copley, J.T., Dale, A., Evans, S., Fleming, B.F., Gates, A.R., Grant, H., Hartl, M., Huvenne, V.A., Jeffreys, R., Josso, P., King, L., Simon-Lledó, E., Le Bas, T., Norman, L., O'Malley, B., Peacock, T., Shimmield, T., Stewart, E.C., Sweetman, A.K., Wardell, C., Aleynik, D., Glover, A.G., (2025). Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track. Nature, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08921-3