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Overview:
A compliation of marine zooplankton occurance from sample collections, species information, community genes and genomes, and BLAST search. are 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 Census of Marine Zooplankton
Direct Download: OBIS Census of Marine Zooplankton
Site Location: North Pacific
Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes
Timespan: 1977 - 2002
Sampling Frequency: Varies. Some stations are represented by 6-10 data points while others as many as 51-100.
Data Collection Summary / Methods:
Data collected:
OBIS data schema: species name, individual count, date, location, temperature, depth, salinity, nitrogen, oxygen, silicate.
Known Issues: It appears that the 19 sampling stations were visited unevenly.
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: Census of Marine Zooplankton Asia Data Mangement Office & Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Marine Biodiversity Information Network
Supplemental resources:
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Marine Biodiversity Information Network - http://www.scarmarbin.be/
Available via the EcoData Retriever: No