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Mesopelagic Crustaceans of the North Western Portuguese Coast between 1998 and 2000
Citable as data publication
Dos Santos, A.; Marraccini, A.; Afonso, C.; Correia, C.; Cunha, M. E.; Quintela, M. F. (2017). Mesopelagic Crustaceans of the North Western Portuguese Coast. https://doi.org/10.14284/466
Contact:
Marraccini, Alessandro ;
Dos Santos, Antonina
Availability: 
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
The objective of this data collection was to study the structure of the mesopelagic ecosistem off the Northwestern Portuguese coast which is composed by planktonic and nectonics organisms. Mesopelagic organisms live during the day concentrating in big numbers in deeper depths while during the night migrates towards the upper layers. The data was collected aiming to study the composition and the Dynamics of the mesopelagic community and their trophic relations with the fish in the area. Data was collected with an Isaac-Kidd midwater trawl in May 1998 and 2000 and February 1999, together with environmental parameters as temperature, salinity, etc. more
The results showed a strong temporal variability of the abundance of the diferent taxonomic groups in study. The analysis of the results lead to the conclusion that, being the sampling locations and methods used were similar for the studied period, the big variability in the abundances and taxa have been found must be related mainly to the season of the year in which the sampling was performed (winter season for 1999 and late spring for 1998 and 2000).
The results showed a strong temporal variability of the abundance of the diferent taxonomic groups in study. The analysis of the results lead to the conclusion that, being the sampling locations and methods used were similar for the studied period, the big variability in the abundances and taxa have been found must be related mainly to the season of the year in which the sampling was performed (winter season for 1999 and late spring for 1998 and 2000).
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Nekton, Biology > Plankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Mesopelagic zone, ANE, Portugal, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Amphipoda, Copepoda, Crustacea, Decapoda, Euphausiacea, Isopoda, Lophogastrida, Mysida
Geographical coverage
ANE, Portugal [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -9,735; MinLat: 38,575 - MaxLong: -9,16; MaxLat: 41,805 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: -9,735; MinLat: 38,575 - MaxLong: -9,16; MaxLat: 41,805 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
May 1998 - May 2000
Taxonomic coverage
Parameters
Contributors
Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), data creator
Dos Santos, Antonina
Marraccini, Alessandro
Afonso, Cláudia
Cunha, Maria Emília
Marraccini, Alessandro
Afonso, Cláudia
Cunha, Maria Emília
Correia, Carla
Quintela, Maria de Fátima
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Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2017-08-02
Information last updated: 2022-08-09
