Integrated Marine Information System

Atlantic Meridional Transect cruise AMT12 - Microzooplankton abundance and biomass (optical microscopy) (CTD bottles)

Citation

Hampton P, Fileman E (2025). Atlantic Meridional Transect cruise AMT12 - Microzooplankton abundance and biomass (optical microscopy) (CTD bottles). British Oceanographic Data Centre. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8784

Contact: British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), more ;

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

This dataset contains microzooplankton abundance and biomass data from CTD bottle samples collected during the AMT12 cruise in the Atlantic between Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, and Grimsby, United Kingdom, in May-June 2003. The data contribute to the AMT project and were collected by scientists from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · A, Atlantic · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Global · Habitats and biotopes · James Clark Ross [EurOBIS harvested data] · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Atlantic Ocean

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -45,3017; MinLat: -43,1983 - MaxLong: -19,4542; MaxLat: 44,6311 [WGS84]

Atlantic Ocean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

17 May 2003 - 12 June 2003

Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Volume of sample from the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors

University of Liverpool; School of Biological Sciences, more, data creator

Hampton, Paul

Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), more, data creator

Fileman, Elaine

British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), more, data manager

Dempster, Charlotte

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Project

DTO - BioFlow: Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean, more