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.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
ORCID ID >

Temporal resolution
P0Y1M0DT0H0M0S
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

N
S
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W


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
Keywords (Place)
  • Storm Bay
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Temperate Reef
AODN Platform Vocabulary
Keywords (Theme)
  • 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


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Website
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

Code
Biotic taxonomic identification
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
  • CSV

OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - Zooplankton sampling [direct download]

OnLine resource
PUBLICATION - Salmon Sub-program: Marine currents, nutrients and plankton in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania and responses to changing weather patterns.

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.

OnLine resource
View and download this data through the interactive IMAS Data Portal.

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

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager
Parent metadata

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

N
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E
W


Keywords

Count for this species in sample Developmental stage of identified taxa Sex of identified taxa
AODN Discovery Parameter Vocabulary
Abundance of biota Biotic taxonomic identification
NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
EARTH SCIENCE | AGRICULTURE | AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES | AQUACULTURE EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | PROTISTS | FLAGELLATES | DINOFLAGELLATES EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | PLANKTON | PHYTOPLANKTON EARTH SCIENCE | OCEANS | OCEAN CIRCULATION | OCEAN CURRENTS EARTH SCIENCE | TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE | WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY

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