IMR Zooplankton North Sea

Citation

Falkenhaug, T. (2014). IMR Zooplankton North Sea. Institute of Marine Research, Norway

Contact: Falkenhaug, Tone

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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

Phytoplankton abundance, Phytoplankton biomass, Zooplankton abundance, Zooplankton biomass

Contributors

more, data manager, data creator

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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