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IMR Zooplankton North Sea
Citation
Falkenhaug, T. (2014). IMR Zooplankton North Sea. Institute of Marine Research, Norway. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4438
Contact: Falkenhaug, Tone

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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
The IMR zooplankton database holds North Sea data on species composition (abundance), size fractionated biomass as well as biomass for particular zooplankton groups obtained from standard seasonal transects (Utsira-StartPoint, Feie-Shetland, Hanstholm-Aberdeen, Torungen-Hirtshals) and a regional coverage of the northern North Sea and Skagerrak during April-May. Data on species composition are limited.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Phytoplankton, ANE, North Sea, EurOBIS calculated BBOX

Geographical coverage
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -1,6657; MinLat: 56,9833 - MaxLong: 10,8247; MaxLat: 61,1617 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
From 1989 on [In Progress]

Parameters
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Phytoplankton abundance
Phytoplankton biomass
Zooplankton abundance
Zooplankton biomass

Contributors
Institute of Marine Research (IMR)data managerdata creator
Falkenhaug, Tone

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2013-11-04
Information last updated: 2015-03-06
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