Zooplankton distribution and abundance during the BROKE-West survey

• Other Authors: SWADLING, KERRIE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SWADLING, KERRIE (processor), KAWAGUCHI, SO (hasPrincipalInvestigator), KAWAGUCHI, SO (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; oceans; CRUSTACEANS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; FISH; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; BIOMASS DYNAMICS; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; ZOOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC; EUPHAUSIIDS (KRILL); Southern Ocean; Calanoides acutus; Calanus propinquus; Oithona similis; Rhincalanus gigas; Metridia gerlachei; Microcalanus pygmaeus; Euphausia superba; Euphausia crystallorophias; Thysanoessa macrura; Sagitta; Frittilaria; BROKE-West; CCAMLR Division 58.4.2; PLANKTON NETS; TRAWL; MIDWATER TRAWLS; ECHO SOUNDERS; R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis; SHIPS; OCEAN > CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarc*; Antarctica; aurora australis; Copepods
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/zooplankton-distribution-abundance-west-survey/700660; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/59b9fe611e5ab; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/BROKE-West_zooplankton; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Samples were collected at trawl stations (approximately every second CTD station), as well as opportunistically when something interesting was spotted on the Echosounder. The samples were collected with an RMT-1 plankton net and preserved in Steedman's solution. Upon returning to Australia, the...