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IMR Zooplankton Norwegian Sea
Citation
Broms, C. (2014). IMR Zooplankton Norwegian Sea. Institute of Marine Research, Norway. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4437
Contact: Broms, Cecilie

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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 Norwegian Sea data on size fractionated biomass as well as biomass for particular zooplankton groups obtained from standard seasonal transects (Svinøy, Gimsøy and Bjørnøya-vest) and a regional coverage of the Norwegian Sea during spring. Data on species composition (abundance) are limited.

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

Geographical coverage
ANE, Norwegian Sea [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -11,992; MinLat: 61,5005 - MaxLong: 17; MaxLat: 82,1067 [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
Broms, Cecilie

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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