Spatial distribution of zooplankton (Antarctic krill, ice krill) in the wider Weddell Sea (Antarctica) with links to ArcGIS map packages ...

• Main Authors: Teschke, Katharina, Pehlke, Hendrik, Brey, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Antarctica; Euphausia crystallorophias; Euphausia superba; Marine Protected Area MPA; Weddell Sea; File content; File name; File format; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Model; Development of a CCAMLR Marine Protected Area in the Antarctic Weddell Sea WSMPA; Functional Ecology @ AWI AWI_FuncEco; Antarctic; Atkinson; Gizhiga; Lazarev; Lazarev Sea; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.899667; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.899667

Here, we provided four ArcGIS map packages with georeferenced files on the spatial distribution of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, (adults and larvae) and ice krill, Euphausia crystallorophias, in the wider Weddell Sea. The files were created in the context of the development of a marine protected area in the Weddell Sea.Antarctic krill (adults): The map of predicted habitat suitability for adult Antarctic krill was based on krill data from the database KRILLBASE (Atkinson et al., 2017; data request: 26-09-13). Those data were complemented by krill data, which were collected (a) during the Norwegian Antarctic research expedition 1976/77 (M/V "Polarsirkel"), (b) during two Soviet research cruises (RV "Gizhiga", 1977; RV "Volny Vetter", 1983), (c) in the context of the Lazarev Sea Krill Survey ("Polarstern" cruises ANT-XXI/4, ANT-XXIII/2, ANT-XXIII/6, ANT-XXIV/2) as well as (d) during "Polarstern" cruise ANT-XXIX/3. The habitat suitability model was developed by the use of the modelling package "biomod2". ...