Kerguelen Axis salps and Thysanoessa macrura

Zooplankton were collected with a Rectangular Midwater Trawl (RMT 8+1 net) from 37 sampling sites on and near the Southern Kerguelen Plateau. The contents of each net were preserved in 5% buffered formaldehyde. This dataset covers the counts of the contents of the RMT8 net and includes the abundance...

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Other Authors: SWADLING, KERRIE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SWADLING, KERRIE (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
RMT
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/kerguelen-axis-salps-thysanoessa-macrura/1425332
https://doi.org/10.26179/5d5e1f25cb8f3
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4331_salp_Tmac_abundance
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Zooplankton were collected with a Rectangular Midwater Trawl (RMT 8+1 net) from 37 sampling sites on and near the Southern Kerguelen Plateau. The contents of each net were preserved in 5% buffered formaldehyde. This dataset covers the counts of the contents of the RMT8 net and includes the abundances for the euphausiid Thysanoessa macrura and the salp Salpa thompsoni. The contents were identified and counted under a Leica M165C stereo-microscope. A flow meter attached to the mouth of the RMT 8 was used to record the volume of seawater passing through the net. The count for Thysanoessa macrura includes the total of all developmental stages. For the salps abundances are shown for the 2 developmental phases - solitary individuals and aggregates.