Zooplankton sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania
Zooplankton was counted and identified from three sites over the 5-year period. The net used (200 m Bongo net) was designed to catch meso-zooplankton with an integrated vertical tow through the water column. One net from each of the paired Bongo samples was analysed and the data expressed as numbers per m3. Copepods dominated the zooplankton, with other groups such as salps, krill, appendicularians, cladocerans, chaetognaths and meroplanktonic larvae being seasonally dominant.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-06-25
Principal investigator
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Swadling, Kerrie, Dr
IMAS - Hobart
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Point of contact
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Eriksen, Ruth, Dr
IMAS - Hobart
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Point of contact
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Beard, Jason, Mr
IMAS - Hobart
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
Point of contact
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Crawford, Christine, Dr
IMAS - Hobart
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
- Credit
- Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
- Status
- Completed
Principal investigator
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Swadling, Kerrie, Dr
IMAS - Hobart
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
- Temporal resolution
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P0Y1M0DT0H0M0S
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2009-11-01 2015-04-30
Vertical element
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 90
- Identifier
- EPSG::5715
- Name
- MSL depth
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
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- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | PLANKTON | PHYTOPLANKTON
- EARTH SCIENCE | AGRICULTURE | AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES | AQUACULTURE
- EARTH SCIENCE | TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE | WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY
- EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN CIRCULATION | OCEAN CURRENTS
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | PROTISTS | FLAGELLATES | DINOFLAGELLATES
- Keywords (Place)
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- Storm Bay
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Temperate Reef
- AODN Platform Vocabulary
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Count for this species in sample
- Sex of identified taxa
- Developmental stage of identified taxa
- AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
- AODN Instrument Vocabulary
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Please contact Kerrie Swadling if you wish to use the data.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
-
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License Graphic
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Swadling, K.M., Eriksen, R.S., Beard, J.M. and Crawford, C.M. (2018) Phytoplankton sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. Data accessed at http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=2f950283-8f4b-41b7-a379-a3b3af0c48e0 on (access date).
- Other constraints
- Please contact Kerrie Swadling (Principal Investigator) if you wish to use the data.
Associated resource
- Title
- East Coast Plankton
- Alternate title
- ECP
- Date
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Swadling, K.M., Eriksen, R.S., Beard, J.M. and Crawford, C.M. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, 2017, Salmon Sub-program: Marine currents, nutrients and plankton in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania and responses to changing weather patterns, Hobart, Tasmania, June. CC BY 3.0
Content Information
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Name
- Count for this species in sample
- Name
- COUNT_SPECIES
Identifier
- Name
- GENUS_SPECIES
- Name
- Sex of identified taxa
- Name
- SEX
- Name
- Developmental stage of identified taxa
- Name
- DEV_STAGE
Identifier
- Code
- Abundance of biota
- Name
- ABUNDANCE
- Identifier
- http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UPMM
- Name
- Number per cubic metre
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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- CSV
- OnLine resource
- DATA ACCESS - Zooplankton sampling [direct download]
- OnLine resource
-
imas:ECP_GEOSERVER_ZOOPLANKTON
MAP - Zooplankton sampling locations
- OnLine resource
-
imas:ECP_GEOSERVER_ZOOPLANKTON
This OGC WFS service returns the data in subsettable CSV format.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Zooplankton were collected with a 2-m long Bongo net (mouth diameter: 75 cm; mesh size: 200 m). The nets were deployed to within 2 m of the seabed and hauled steadily (1 m s-1) back to the surface. On-board, zooplankton samples were anesthetised using soda water and refrigerated. The catches were returned to the laboratory and preserved in 4% formaldehyde. When necessary, samples were subsplit with a Folsom plankton splitter so that between 400 and 1000 individuals were counted. Many groups, including copepods, krill, salps and cladocerans, were identified to species. Other individuals were identified to coarser taxonomic levels.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Platform
Identifier
- Code
- research vessel
Instrument
Identifier
- Code
- plankton nets
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Instrument
Identifier
- Code
- plankton nets
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 2f950283-8f4b-41b7-a379-a3b3af0c48e0
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2f950283-8f4b-41b7-a379-a3b3af0c48e0
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-03-06T17:30:16
- Date info (Revision)
- 2019-03-06T17:30:16
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
Overviews
Spatial extent
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W
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Associated resources
Not available