North Atlantic continuous plankton recorder survey 1960-2007

The database collected using the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) operated by SAHFOS covers a long time span (surveys are on-going since 1946) and the whole North Atlantic, including the North Sea. It is therefore a unique tool to investigate changes in the planktonic community composition. Key pu...

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Main Authors: McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail, Burkill, Peter, Beaugrand, Gregory, Edwards, Martin, Gattuso, Jean-Pierre, Johns, David
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2010
Subjects:
Bivalvia sp.
larvae
Clione limacina
Coccolithophoridae sp.
Date/time end
Date/time start
Echinodermata
EPOCA
European Project on Ocean Acidification
Foraminifera
planktic
LATITUDE
Limacina retroversa
LONGITUDE
Microscopy
North Atlantic
Ocean acidification
Online Access:https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.744737
https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.744737
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Summary:The database collected using the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) operated by SAHFOS covers a long time span (surveys are on-going since 1946) and the whole North Atlantic, including the North Sea. It is therefore a unique tool to investigate changes in the planktonic community composition. Key publications have documented, for example, changes in zooplankton and chlorophyll abundance over the past decades. However, the data on calcareous plankton archived in the CPR database have not yet been exploited. The publication of the "Atlas of Calcifying Plankton" by SAHFOS and EPOCA begins to fill this gap and is therefore most timely. I am convinced that the scientific community will use this short preliminary description of the data available to investigate the drivers of the changes (or lack of thereof) reported in the Atlas.

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