Lengths of key zooplankton species in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean

No problems were encountered with data collection. Zooplankton were collected during the winter-spring transition during two cruises of the Aurora Australis: SIPEX in 2007 and SIPEX II in 2012. To determine size and biomass, key species were measured. Measurements of Prosome, Urosome and Total lengt...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
Subjects:
biota
oceans
ZOOPLANKTON
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOSPHERE
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
PLANKTON
COPEPODS
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
ARTHROPODS
CRUSTACEANS
EUPHAUSIIDS (KRILL)
SIPEX
SIPEX II
MORPHOMETRICS
R/V AA &gt
R/V Aurora Australis
ACE/CRC
AMD/AU
AMD
CEOS
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
OCEAN &gt
INDIAN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA
Indian
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Antarctica
aurora australis
Sea ice
Copepods
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/lengths-key-zooplankton-southern-ocean/993028
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4140_Zooplankton_lengths
http://data.aad.gov.au/eds/4562/download
https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4140_Zooplankton_lengths
https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=AAS_4140
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Summary:No problems were encountered with data collection. Zooplankton were collected during the winter-spring transition during two cruises of the Aurora Australis: SIPEX in 2007 and SIPEX II in 2012. To determine size and biomass, key species were measured. Measurements of Prosome, Urosome and Total length are provided. The zooplankton were taken from samples collected with umbrella nets, RMT1 net and sea ice cores. They were measured under a Leica M165C steromicroscope using an ocular micrometer. The ocular micrometer was calibrated against a stage micrometer (+/- 0.01 um). The lengths of the zooplankton were used in standard length/weight equations to determine biomass of the key species. The lengths were also used to calibrated measurements of biomass size spectra, as determined by the laser optical plankton counter (LOPC).

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