Data collection of Calanus finmarchicus reproduction life history traits in the North Atlantic Ocean

• Main Authors: Jónasdóttir, Sigrún Huld, Head, Erica J H, Runge, Jeffrey A, Plourde, Stéphane, Melle, Webjørn, Gaard, Eilif, Gislason, Astthor, Heath, Michael R, Niehoff, Barbara, Nielsen, Torkel Gissel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Area/locality; Basin Scale Analysis; Synthesis and Integration; Calanus finmarchicus; egg production rate; standard deviation; standard error; egg production rate per female; eggs per clutch; female; prosome length; spawning frequency; Chlorophyll a; areal concentration; Depth; bottom/max; top/min; EURO-BASIN; LATITUDE; North Atlantic; Norwegian Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.828393; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.828393

Observations of egg production rates (EPR) for female Calanus finmarchicus were compared from different regions of the North Atlantic. The regions were diverse in size and sampling frequency, ranging from a fixed time series station in the Lower St Lawrence Estuary, off Rimouski, where nearly 200 experiments were carried out between May and December from 1994 to 2006, to a large-scale survey in the Northern Norwegian Sea, where about 50 experiments were carried out between April and June from 2002 to 2004. For this analysis the stations were grouped mostly along geographic lines, with only limited attention being paid to oceanographic features. There is some overlap between regions, however, where stations were sometimes kept together when they were sampled on the same cruise. As well some stations other than off Rimouski were occupied more than once during different years and/or in different seasons.