Name: Dalhousie University: Drift net plankton samples collected in Lunenburg Bay, 2005-2006
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This resource contains plankton species distribution records extracted from the Fisheries and Oceans Canada BioChem database for the 'Dal thesis - Arnaud Laurent - Lunenburg Bay' series of records. These distribution records were collected as part of a university PhD thesis project designed to investigate variability in plankton dynamics found in Lunenburg Bay, an inlet on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia,Canada (Lunenburg Bay Project) This OBIS resource contains a subset of the archived database records - at this time only abundance information has been released.

Citation

Laurent, Arnaud. (2013). Drift net plankton samples collected in Lunenburg Bay, 2005-2006. Version 1 In OBIS Canada Digital Collections. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Published by OBIS, Digital http://www.iobis.org/. Accessed on –INSERT DATE

Published

February 11, 2026 at 22:02

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

URL

http://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/resource?r=dal_laurent2011

Archive

https://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/archive.do?r=dal_laurent2011

Contacts

Arnaud Laurent
Dalhousie University

Mary Kennedy
OBIS Canada

Cullen John

1,149

total submitted occurrences

1,149

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,149	100.0%
eventDate	1,149	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	1,149	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME		13	1.1%

Dalhousie University: Drift net plankton samples collected in Lunenburg Bay, 2005-2006

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data