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IMR Zooplankton Barents Sea
Citation
Knutsen, T.; Dalpadado, P. (2014). IMR Zooplankton Barents Sea. Institute of Marine Research, Norway. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4436
Contact: Knutsen, Tor ; Dalpadado, Padmini

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

Description
The IMR zooplankton database holds Barents Sea data on species composition (abundance), size fractionated biomass as well as biomass for particular zooplankton groups obtained from standard seasonal transects (Fugløya-Bjørnøya and Vardø-Nord) and a regional coverage of the Barents Sea during autumn. Data on species composition are limited.

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

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 17,0137; MinLat: 69,6728 - MaxLong: 60,0833; MaxLat: 81,4145 [WGS84]
PNE, Barents Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1981 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
Knutsen, Tor
Dalpadado, Padmini

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

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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