Spatial distribution of key zooplankton species using continuous plankton recorder (CPR) data from the North Atlantic (2000-2009) ...

• Main Authors: Castellani, Claudia, Licandro, Priscilla
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2013
• Subjects: LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Calanus finmarchicus; Calanus helgolandicus; Calanus hyperboreus; Cnidaria; Euphausiidae; Oithona sp.; Pseudocalanus spp.; Thecosomata; Phytoplankton Color Index; Continuous Plankton Recorder CPR; Basin Scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration EURO-BASIN; Broms; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.824423; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.824423

The continuous plankton recorder (CPR) survey is an upper layer plankton monitoring program that has regularly collected samples, at monthly intervals, in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas since 1946. Water from approximately 6 m depth enters the CPR through a small aperture at the front of the sampler and travels down a tunnel where it passes through a silk filtering mesh of 270 µm before exiting at the back of the CPR. The plankton filtered on the silk is analyzed in sections corresponding to 10 nautical miles (approx. 3 m**3 of seawater filtered) and the plankton microscopically identified (Richardson et al., 2006 and reference therein). In the present study we used the CPR data to investigate the current basin scale distribution of C. finmarchicus (C5-C6), C. helgolandicus (C5-C6), C. hyperboreus (C5-C6), Pseudocalanus spp. (C6), Oithona spp. (C1-C6), total Euphausiida, total Thecosomata and the presence/absence of Cnidaria and the Phytoplankton Colour Index (PCI). The PCI, which is a visual ... : Supplement to: Melle, Webjørn; Runge, Jeffrey A; Head, Erica J H; Plourde, Stéphane; Castellani, Claudia; Licandro, Priscilla; Pierson, James; Jónasdóttir, Sigrún Huld; Johnson, C; Broms, Cecilie; Debes, Høgni; Falkenhaug, Tone; Gaard, Eilif; Gislason, Astthor; Heath, Michael R; Niehoff, Barbara; Nielsen, Torkel Gissel; Pepin, Pierre; Stenevik, Erling Kaare; Chust, Guillem (2015): Biogeography of key mesozooplankton species in the North Atlantic and egg production of Calanus finmarchicus. Earth System Science Data, 7(2), 223-230 ...