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Overview:
The Japan Oceanographic Data Center (JODC) makes their plankton data compiled by Ministry of Environment, Fishery Agency, Meteorological Agency and local gorvernments available at OBIS. The OBIS compiled data includes species name, individual count, lat/lon, and some environmental correlates like depth and salinity.
Dataset Location: OBIS JODC Plankton Data
Direct Download: OBIS JODC Plankton Data
Site Location: Western Pacific
Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes
Timespan: 1971 - 2006
Sampling Frequency: irregular
Data Collection Summary / Methods: interagency data collection compilation
Data collected: OBIS data schema: species name, individual count, date, location, temperature, depth, salinity, nitrogen, oxygen, silicate.
Known Issues: This data is collected by a number of different Japanese agencies.
Best Practices: tips for separating the wheat from the chaff
Conditions for use: 'freely available' and 'open-access' as per OBIS: http://iobis.org/about/vision
Citation/ Distributing Author: Japan Oceanographic Data Center
Supplemental resources: Japan Oceanographic Data Center - http://www.jodc.go.jp/index.html
Marine Organism Data - http://www.jodc.go.jp/data/biology.html
Available via the EcoData Retriever: No