Table 3.

Species composition (biodiversity analyses with Illumina Sequencing, 18S meta-barcoding analysis) of dominating protist groups (share in %) in trap material of the upper and deep Nansen Basins during autumn 2011 and spring/summer 2012.

Nansen Basin	N-1	N-2	N-15	N-16	N-17	N-18	N-19	N-1	N-2	N-17	N-18	N-19	N-20
	285 m	285 m	285 m	285 m	285 m	285 m	285 m	3465 m	3465 m	3465 m	3465 m	3465 m	3465 m
Month	Sep 11	Oct 11	June 12	June 12	July 12	July 12	Aug 12	Sep 11	Oct 11	July 12	July 12	Aug 12	Aug 12
Taxonomics entities (%)
putative picoeukaryotes	63	64	56	41	57	21	31	27	27	23	27	23	16
dinophytes	10	4	17	34	13	12	19	12	6	6	3	6	4
diatoms	0	0	4	3	1	13	3	1	2	27	35	19	21
labyrinthulomycetes	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	19	15	12	19	23