Realm: Marine
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Temperate Shelf and seas ecoregions
Central latitude: 43.420000
Central longitude: -8.440000
Duration: 8 years, from 2009 to 2016
2194 records
72 distinct species
Across the time series
Heterocapsa niei is the most frequently occurring species
Methods
Phytoplankton sampled approximately at monthly intervals between May 1989 and December 2016 at Station E2CO (A Coruña, NW Spain) with Niskin bottles at 3-5 depths in the photic zone (0-70 m). All samples were collected between 10:00 and 14:00 o'clock (local time) and were preserved inLugol's iodine acid solution. Counting and identification: inverted microscope (Utermöhl's method). Some species recognized individually after 2008. Species names referenced to the Word Register of Marine Species (last access: June 2019). Phytoplankton identification and counts were made by Manuel Varela (until 2010) and Jorge Lorenzo (2011-2016). These series are part of the long-term observational project RADIALES (Instituto Español de Oceanografía, IEO, Spain).[Extracted from Bode et al., 2023] The abundance unit is counts/litre.
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