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Microphytoplankton along four transects off the Kenyan coast in 1992
Citable as data publication
Wawiye O.; Tackx M.; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME); Laboratory for Ecology and Systematics. VUB: Belgium; (2015): Microphytoplankton along four transects off the Kenyan coast in 1992. https://doi.org/10.14284/74
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
List of all the microphytoplankton species recorded along four transects during the Southeast monsoon in the period June 18 to July 7, 1992. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Wawiye, O. (1995). Microphytoplankton distribution off the Kenyan coast. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 41, app. pp. more

Expedition by RV Tyro where a taxonomic list was prepared of all the microphytoplankton species recorded along four transects (Tana, Kiwayuu, Sabaki and Gazi transect) during the Southeast monsoon in the period June 18 to July 7, 1992. A total of 235 taxa were recorded in 52 stations which were sampled at varying depth.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Microphytoplankton, research vessel, Tyro, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, ISW, Kenyan Coast

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 40,8795; MinLat: -2,5806 - MaxLong: 40,8795; MaxLat: -2,5806 [WGS84]
ISW, Kenyan Coast [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
18 June 1992 - 7 July 1992

Parameter
Presence of biota

Contributors
Podoor, Nicoledata creator
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology Post Graduate Program (FAME), moredata creator
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL), moredata creatordata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Historical Kenyan-Belgian research datasets (1873-1999), more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Project
FAME: Fundamental and Applied Marine Ecology, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Wawiye, O. (1995). Microphytoplankton distribution off the Kenyan coast. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 41, app. pp., more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2013-10-30
Information last updated: 2022-08-04
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