Data from: New net zooplankton geographical information system in the Far East seas and adjacent waters of the Pacific Ocean ...

• Main Author: Volvenko, Igor V.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: size of animals; spatio-temporal distribution; Bering Sea; Okhotsk; Pacific; Holo; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pb5374s; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.pb5374s

Motivation: I describe the GIS that is based on a database of zooplankton collected by Juday net with 0.1 m^2 opening (0.168 mm mesh) Main types of variable contained The average density (mg/m3) of plankton and their different constituents in one-degree trapeziums Location: Chukchi, Bering, Okhotsk, Japan/East seas, Pacific Ocean Time period: 1984-2013 Taxa studied: All mesofauna – more than 214 species of holo- and meroplankton Methods: GIS creation, data analysis and literature review Software format: Any that is capable of working with shapefiles Results: Maps of the spatial-temporal distribution of plankton with various taxonomic groups and dimensions were compiled and analysed. Based on these maps and on the literature, a supposition was made regarding the negative correlation of the zooplankton size with temperature. It was also revealed that some fluctuations in the abundance of plankton in the Bering Sea and the ocean are in phase, while in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, the fluctuations ... : SupplementThe supplementary material contains zip-archived GIS layers with data on the average plankton concentrations in mg/m3 of the following: small (Sf), medium (Mf) and large (Lf) fractions, total zooplankton (Total), different groups (Protista, Jellyfish, Copepoda, Amphipoda, Euphausia, Chaetognat, Meroplankt, Cladocera, Pteropoda, Mysida, Cumacea, Isopoda, Ostracoda, and other), as well as total concentrations obtained in the day (D) and night (N) times, different seasons (Win, Spr, Sum, Aut), and long-term periods (Y1984_1990, Y1991_1995, Y1996_2005, Y2006_2013); this material is found as shapefiles and tab-delimited txt files. These data were used to construct Figures 2-8 of the paper. ...