Zooplankton abundance in the Kerguelen Axis region 2016

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Australian Antarctic Data Centre on Nov 9, 2022 Australian Antarctic Data Centre
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Description

Zooplankton were collected with a Rectangular Midwater Trawl (RMT 8+1 net) from 37 sampling sites on and near the Southern Kerguelen Plateau. The contents of each net were preserved in 5% buffered formaldehyde. This dataset covers the counts of the contents of the RMT1 net. The contents were split in the laboratory using a Motoda Box and then identified and counted under a Leica M165C stereo-microscope. A flow meter attached to the mouth of the RMT 8 was used to record the volume of seawater passing through the net, and this volume was converted to water passing through the RMT 1 by applying the conversion factor of 2.027357. The organisms in the samples were identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible. For copepods and euphausiids this level was to species, and generally to sex and/or development stage. For other groups, the identifications were to high levels such as Family or Order.Quality: No problems with the data collection or the analysis. 2018-08-29 - The original datasheet was reformatted to fit IPT Biodiversity.AQ standard. The new datasheet "ZooplanktonKerguelenPlateau.csv" provides the datasetID, eventID (Cruiser and sampling site), eventDate, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, locationID, continent, occurrenceStatus, and basisOfRecord, samplingProtocol, and preparation. The individuals abundance in 1000 m-3. The taxonomical organization is provided to the lowest taxonomical rank that could be determined, after matched in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species). Some species showed sex and life stage classification.

Data Records

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How to cite

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Swadling, K. (2017, updated 2018) Zooplankton abundance in the Kerguelen Axis region

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Australian Antarctic Data Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f74dfed8-d09b-4b18-8443-c20754410e16.  Australian Antarctic Data Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Atlas of Living Australia.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

External data

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Point of truth metadata record https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4331_ZooplanktonAbundance ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

KERRIE SWADLING
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  • INVESTIGATOR
IMAS - UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC University of Tasmania PB 129
7004 Hobart
Tasmania
AU
DATA OFFICER AADC
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Australia Antarctic Division
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7050 Kingston
Tasmania
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KERRIE SWADLING
  • Point Of Contact
  • INVESTIGATOR
IMAS - UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
  • Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC University of Tasmania PB 129
7004 HOBART
TAS
AU

Geographic Coverage

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > Fawn Trough OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > Kerguelen Plateau OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > Princess Elizabeth Trough CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

Bounding Coordinates South West [-65.172, 71.177], North East [-57.608, 93.595]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-01-23 / 2016-02-16

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers f74dfed8-d09b-4b18-8443-c20754410e16
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=kerguelen_zooplankton