Southern Ocean Continuous Zooplankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Survey

Occurrence
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Description

This dataset contains results from Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) surveys in the Southern Ocean.This is a database of surveys to map the spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity of the plankton throughout the region.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 490,896 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

See metadata record http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/AADC-00099

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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: 82ea2cf6-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  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; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Point of truth metadata record https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/AADC-00099 ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

Johnathan Kool
  • Originator
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Kingston
Tasmania
AU
DATA OFFICER AADC
  • Metadata Provider
  • Point Of Contact
  • DATA CENTER CONTACT
Australian Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Kingston
Tasmania
AU
  • +61 3 6232 3244

Geographic Coverage

Southern Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-77.413, -180], North East [-38.779, 180]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1991-01-12 / 2018-03-24

Project Data

No Description available

Title Southern Ocean Continuous Zooplankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Survey

The personnel involved in the project:

Graham Hosie
  • Principal Investigator

Collection Data

Collection Name Southern Ocean Continuous Zooplankton Recorder (SO-CPR) Survey
Collection Identifier doi:10.26179/r7sm-9y85
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by OBIS

Alternative Identifiers 82ea2cf6-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=socpr