Continuous Plankton Recorder Dataset (SAHFOS) - Phytoplankton

Darren Stevens1

1 SAHFOS, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, The Hoe, PL1 2PB, PLYMOUTH, United Kingdom

Corresponding author(s): Darren Stevens (dpst@sahfos.ac.uk)

Received {date}; Revised {date}; Accepted {date}; Published {date}

Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) data from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS). CPR-DATA

Abstract

SAHFOS is unique in having comparable data on the geographical distribution, seasonal cycles and year-to-year changes in abundance of plankton over a large spatial area. There is no other survey in the world with 80 years of marine plankton data.

Keywords: SAHFOS
CPR, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Continuous Plankton Recorder Dataset - Zooplankton
Personnel: Darren Stevens

Data published through GBIF: http://192.171.193.52:8080/ipt/resource.do?r=sahfos-cpr-phyto

Taxonomic coverage

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: This covers the North Sea and North Atlantic CPR Survey, and current work undertaken with the British Antarctic Survey
Coordinates: 61°0'0''S and 80°0'0''N Latitude; 100°0'0''W and 50°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 01 January 1946 - 31 December 2010

Specimen preservation method: Formalin

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Continuous Plankton Recorder Dataset (SAHFOS) - Phytoplankton
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://192.171.193.52:8080/ipt/archive.do?r=sahfos-cpr-phyto
Publication date of data: 2016-05-18
Language: English

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2011-12-06
Hierarchy level: Dataset