The Zooplankton Ecology of Ellis Fjord

From the abstract of one of the papers:

Three new zooplankton nets have been designed to enable improved collection of zooplankters from ice-covered waters. These nets also enable quantitative sampling of species not adequately sampled by other methods. The first net is a vertical tow net which can be folded like an umbrella to pass through a small ice hole (10 cm). This 'Umbrella Net' takes an integrated sample of zooplankton from all sample depths. The second net is a collapsible free-fall net designed to collect mobile zooplankters capable of avoiding towed nets. This was the only net used which was capable of collecting all furcilia stages of Euphausia crystallorophias from Ellis Fjord, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. The third net is a diver-operated push net designed to collect zooplankters in the top 15 cm of the under-ice column. Because of the high standing crop of pytoplankton at and near the under-ice surface at particular times of the year, some species of zooplankton tend to congregate there. These species, particularly Paralabidocera antarctica, were collected in great abundance using the push net, but were rare in samples collected by other methods.

The fields in this dataset are:

species

species density

site

sample

Identification info

Alternate title: The Zooplankton Ecology of Ellis Fjord

Date (Publication): 2004-04-20

Edition: 1

Citation identifier

Dataset DOI

Title: Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system

Date (Publication): 2012-04-23

Citation identifier: ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier: doi:10.4225/15/57F325E5E2F96

Originator

Kirkwood, J.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

KIRKWOOD, JOHN M.

Southern Fisheries Research Centre

PO Box 76

Department of Primary Industry

Deception Bay

Queensland

4508

Australia

Collaborator

KIRKWOOD, JOHN M.

Southern Fisheries Research Centre

PO Box 76

Department of Primary Industry

Deception Bay

Queensland

4508

Australia

Name: CAASM Metadata

Website: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_379

Status: Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Topic category

Biota
Inland waters
Oceans

Extent

Description: Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod: 1984-11-01 1986-02-28

Extent

Description: Vertical Extent - Depth

Vertical element

Minimum value: 2

Maximum value: 31

Identifier: urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6498

Name: Vertical CS. Axis: depth (D). Orientation: down. UoM: m.

Identifier: urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:113

Name: depth

Title: Macrobenthic species assemblages in Ellis Fjord, Vestfold Hills, Antarctica

Date (Publication): 1988

Citation identifier: 97

Author

Kirkwood, J.M. and Burton, H.R.

Name: Marine Biology

Page: 445-457

Title: Three new zooplankton nets designed for under-ice sampling; with preliminary results of collections made from Ellis Fjord, Antarctica during 1985

Date (Publication): 1987

Citation identifier: 1