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Zooplankton respiration data from Fort Jesus and measurements of dry weight and length of copepods collected at Tudor Creek between August 1985 and June 1986
Citable as data publication
Okemwa E.N.; Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute: Kenya; (2016): Zooplankton respiration data from Fort Jesus and measurements of dry weight and length of copepods collected at Tudor Creek between August 1985 and June 1986. https://doi.org/10.14284/172
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Description
Day and night respiration, dry weight and carbon respiration of zooplankton from Fort Jesus and mean dry weight and mean length of copepod groups from Tudor Creek. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Respiration rate, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek, Acartia Dana, 1846, Brachyura, Centropages Krøyer, 1849, Copepoda, Decapoda, Eucalanus Dana, 1852-1853, Macrosetella Scott A., 1909, Oncaea Philippi, 1843, Temora Baird, 1850, Undinula vulgaris (Dana, 1849-1852)
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 39,6558; MinLat: -4,07 - MaxLong: 39,69; MaxLat: -4,0281 [WGS84]
ISW, Kenya, Mombasa, Tudor Creek
Temporal coverage
27 August 1985 - 6 June 1986
Taxonomic coverage
Acartia Dana, 1846 [WoRMS]
Brachyura [WoRMS]
Centropages Krøyer, 1849 [WoRMS]
Copepoda [WoRMS]
Decapoda [WoRMS]
Eucalanus Dana, 1852-1853 [WoRMS]
Macrosetella Scott A., 1909 [WoRMS]
Oncaea Philippi, 1843 [WoRMS]
Temora Baird, 1850 [WoRMS]
Undinula vulgaris (Dana, 1849-1852) [WoRMS]
Parameters
Copepoda biomass
Dry weight biomass
Dry weight biomass (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Length
Length of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Respiration
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data manager
Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa Centre (KMFRI), data creator
Okemwa, Ezekiel
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999)
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Publication
Based on this dataset
Polk, P. (Ed.) (1986). Kenya report. VUB: Brussel. 358 pp.
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2016-11-10
Metadatarecord created: 2016-07-05
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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