Dataset

Marine Productivity programme cruise DI262 - Microzooplankton taxonomic data (CTD and Ocean Sampler)

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This dataset contains microzooplankton abundance data from CTD and Ocean Sampler (OS) deployments during the Marine Productivity programme cruise DI262 to the northern North Atlantic in April -May 2002. Samples from the CTD and from all bottles of the OS were collected and preserved in 10% Lugol's iodine for microzooplankton analysis onshore. All species are placed into size categories and into taxonomic groupings. Abundance and biomass data are included.

Citation: Montagnes D J S, Wilson D (2025). Marine Productivity programme cruise DI262 - Microzooplankton taxonomic data (CTD and Ocean Sampler). Version 1.6. British Oceanographic Data Centre. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.vliz.be/bodc/resource?r=1000852_di262_microzooplankton_ctd&v=1.6

Published: May 06, 2025 at 12:45

URL: https://ipt.vliz.be/bodc/resource?r=1000852_di262_microzooplankton_ctd

David J S Montagnes
University of Liverpool School of Biological Sciences

David Wilson
University of Liverpool School of Biological Sciences

British Oceanographic Data Centre
British Oceanographic Data Centre

Anouska Panton
British Oceanographic Data Centre

Phil Williamson
Natural Environment Research Council

1,919
occurrence records
7,842
measurements and facts
33
taxa
17
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,919
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NOT_MARINE 33
1.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 4
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data