Realm: Marine
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Temperate Shelf and seas ecoregions
Central latitude: 43.420000
Central longitude: -8.440000
Duration: 22 years, from 1997 to 2018

7916 records

130 distinct species

Across the time series Acartia clausi is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

Abundance and biomass of mesozooplankton (>200µm) in monthly samples collected in a shelf station off A Coruña (NW Spain) between 1990 and 2018. Zooplankton sampled approximately at monthly intervals between January 1990 and December 2018 at Station E2CO (A Coruña, NW Spain) with double-oblique tows (0-50 m depth) of a 50 cm diameter Juday-Bogorov plankton net with 250 ?m (until 1997) or 200 ?m (from 1997 onwards) mesh size. The net was equipped with a General Oceanic Flowmeter for the calculation of water filtered and a depth recorder. All samples were collected between 10:00 and 14:00 (local time) and were preserved in 2?4% sodium borate-buffered formaldehyde. Sub-samples were taken to estimate total zooplankton abundance (N m?3) by direct examination using a stereo microscope, and biomass (in mg DW m?3) by weighting dried aliquots (50 °C, 48 h). Species names referenced to the Word Register of Marine Species (last access: June 2019). Zooplankton identification and counts were made by M.T. Álvarez-Ossorio (until 2015), E. Rey and M.A. Louro (from 2016 onwards). These series are part of the long-term observational project RADIALES (Instituto Español de Oceanografía, IEO, Spain). [ Extracted from Bode et al., 2020)] Additional: the units of abundance are counts/ m3.

Citation(s)

@Dataset{BioTIME_cit665, Study_id = {800}, Citation_id = {665}, Author = {Bode, Antonio and Louro, M {\'A}ngeles and Rey, Elena}, Publisher = {PANGAEA}, Title = {Monthly data of mesozooplankton abundance and biomass for a shelf station off A Coruña (NW Spain): 1990-2018}, Year = {2020}, Doi = {10.1594/PANGAEA.919080}, Url = {https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.919080}, Language = {English} }<br/>@Dataset{BioTIME_cit666, Study_id = {800}, Citation_id = {666}, Author = {Bode, Antonio and {\'A}lvarez, Marta and Garc{\'\i}a, Luz and Louro, M {\'A}ngeles and Nieto-Cid, Mar and Ruiz-Villarreal, Manuel and Varela, Marta M}, Publisher = {PANGAEA}, Title = {Time series of hydrographic, biogeochemical and plankton variables for a shelf station off A Coruña (NW Spain): 1990-2018}, Year = {2020}, Doi = {10.1594/PANGAEA.919087}, Url = {https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.919087}, Language = {English} }