Dataset

Zooplankton sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania, Australia (2009-2015)

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Zooplankton was counted and identified from three sites over the 5-year period. The net used (200 microm 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.

Citation: Swadling, K.M., Eriksen, R.S., Beard, J.M. and Crawford, C.M. (2018) Zooplankton 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).

Published: June 08, 2022 at 02:03

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=imas_zooplankton_sampling

5,083
occurrence records
147
taxa
91
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,661
32.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 8
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data