Zooplankton data: Vertical distributions of zooplankton in the Norweigian and Greenland Seas during summer, 1989

• Main Authors: Lane, P.V.Z., Smith, S.L., Schwarting, E.M.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ZOOPLANKTON; ARCTIC OCEAN; BASELINE ECOLOGY; COMPILED DATA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Norwegian Sea; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Phytoplankton; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10179429; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10179429; https://doi.org/10.2172/10179429

Recent studies of zooplankton populations in the Greenland Sea have focused on processes at the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) and the areas immediately adjacent to it under the ice and in open water. These studies have shown a relatively short period of intense secondary productivity which is closely linked temporally and spatially to phytoplankton blooms occurring near the ice edge in spring and early summer. During the summer of 1989 we participated in a project focusing on benthic and water column processes in the basins of the Norwegian and Greenland Seas. This study allowed us to compare biological processes at the MIZ with those occurring in the open waters of the Greenland Sea, and to compare processes at both of these locations with those in the Norwegian Sea. The data presented in this report are the results of zooplankton net tows covering the upper 1000 meters of the water column over the Norwegian Sea basin and the Greenland Sea basin, and the upper 500 meters of open water adjacent to the MIZ in the Greenland Sea. Sampling was conducted between 12 and 29 July 1989.