Zooplankton in lakes and fiords along the northern coastline of Ellesmere Island (Ward Hunt Island observatory)

• Main Authors: Vincent, Warwick, Hove, Patrick Van, Veillette, Julie, Létourneau, Louis
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Cryospheric Information Network 2011
• Subjects: Abundance; Biodiversity; Ellesmere Island; Epishelf lakes; Fiords; Limnology; Water column; Zooplankton; ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence of Canada; International Polar Year-Microbial Biodiversity of High Arctic Ecosystems; Arctic; Canada; Ward Hunt Island; Disraeli Fiord; Milne Fiord; Hunt Island; ArcticNet; International Polar Year; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5443/10926; https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/?doi_id=10926

Zooplankton was sampled from Lake A on 8 June 1999 and Disraeli Fiord on 9 June 1999. At Lake A, a hole was cut through the ice and was kept open for 3 days before zooplankton sampling. A 1-m-long conical plankton net mesh size 100 μm; mouth diameter 20 cm) was used to sample the zooplankton. Duplic...