Alejandro_mesozooplankton in Southern Ocean Atlantic sector and the North Atlantic and Arctic

Sampling event
Latest version published on March 22, 2023
Publication date:
March 22, 2023
Published by:
No organization
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Mesozooplankton were collected with a motion-compensated Bongo net (61 cm mouth diameter, 100 and 200 micrometre meshes) and a mini- Bongo net (18 cm mouth diameter, 50 micrometre mesh nets). Both nets fished to a maximum depth of 400 m but sometimes shallower. Specimens were categorised to the lowest possible taxonomic level, which in some cases encompassed developmental stages but in other cases was limited to higher order taxa. Each taxa was enumerated to determine abundance in units of individuals m-2. The dataset allows examination of the distribution and abundance of these species within the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean over a number of years and covering much of the productive season from spring to autumn. The data for the North Atlantic and Arctic covers one season only (summer) and is limited to providing a spatial perspective on the distribution and abundance of mesozooplankton.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 30 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
30
Occurrence 
390

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Centre (2023). Alejandro_mesozooplankton in Southern Ocean Atlantic sector and the North Atlantic and Arctic. Version 1.0. No organization. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt-demo.gbif.es/resource?r=alejandro-mesozoo&v=1.0

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Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; PLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON; OCEANS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING

Contacts

Centre
  • Originator
  • Data
UK Polar Data Centre
Isla
  • Point Of Contact
  • Alumno
IEO
Alejandro Isla
  • User

Geographic Coverage

Southern Ocean Atlantic sector and the North Atlantic and Arctic

Bounding Coordinates South West [-54.45, -43.28], North East [-47.97, -35]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca, Arthropoda, Rotifera, Nemertea, Annelida
Class Eurotatoria, Hexanauplia, Polychaeta, Malacostraca, Gastropoda
Order Amphipoda, Calanoida, Phyllodocida, Bdelloidea, Euphausiacea
Family Scolecitrichidae, Euphausiidae, Calanidae, Spinocalanidae, Euchaetidae, Philodinidae, Hyperiidae, Clausocalanidae, Lopadorrhynchidae, Aetideidae, Rhincalanidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1996-01-04 / 1996-01-21

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Tarling GA, Ward P, Atkinson A, Collins MA, Murphy EJ (2012) Editorial: DISCOVERY 2010: Spatial and temporal variability in a dynamic polar ecosystem. Deep-Sea Res. II 59-60:1-13.
  2. Tyrrell T, Tarling GA, Leakey R, Cripps G, Thorpe S, Richier S, Moore CM (2016) Impacts of surface ocean acidification in polar seas and globally: a field-based approach. Deep-Sea Res. II 127:1-6.

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