Related Time Series
![w_bering_chukchi_benthic_1970_2010-500.png Rich benthic communities on the western side of the Bering/Chukchi Sea system 1970-2010](https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/dbo/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/w_bering_chukchi_benthic_1970_2010-500.png)
The boxes above show the five DBO sites. These are regional “hotspot” transect lines and stations located along a latitudinal gradient, which are considered to exhibit high productivity, biodiversity, and overall rates of change. Information about each of these sites is shown in the sidebar items to the left.
- “foot prints” of high benthic biomass reflect pelagic-benthic coupling and export of carbon to sediments
- infaunal dominated by amphipods, bivalves, polychaetes, and sipunculids