Field comparison of an LHPR net sampling system and an Optical Plankton Counter (OPC) in the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Grant, Sharon, Ward, Peter, Murphy, Eugene, Bone, Douglas, Abbott, Steven
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2000
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Longhurst; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Copepods
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20553/; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/22.4.619

A field comparison of an optical plankton counter (OPC) and a Longhurst-Hardy Plankton Recorder (LHPR) was undertaken around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia during austral spring, 1997, to investigate the capacity of the OPC to accurately describe fine-scale plankton distributions. Initial...