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SmartBuoy Marine Observational Network - UK Waters Phytoplankton Data 2001-2017
Citation
Milligan and Bear (2019). SmartBuoy Marine Observational Network - Phytoplankton Data 2001-2017. Cefas, UK. V2. doi: https://doi.org/10.14466/CefasDataHub.58 https://doi.org/10.14466/CefasDataHub.58
Contact: The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (MBA-DASSH), more ;
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
This dataset consists of analysed phytoplankton data from the years 2001-2017 inclusive collected in UK waters from the SmartBuoy moorings at Celtic Deep, Dowsing, Gabbard/West Gabbard/WestGabbard2, Warp and Liverpool Bay using WMS and EDU automated water samplers. SmartBuoys consist of a 4 meter tall stainless steel frame with a fibreglass toroid for buoyancy. Instruments are attached at a nominal 1 meter depth to the frame. The water samplers collect into pre-spiked bags containing acidified Lugols Iodine on a pre-determined cycle over the course of a deployment. Following recovery these samples were analysed for a full community of phytoplankton species using the Utermohl method on high-power inverted microscopes. Phytoplankton cell counts are abundance values reported in Cells per Litre.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, mooring, ANE, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Bacillariophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Cyanophyceae, Dinophyceae, Euglenoidea
Geographical coverage
ANE, United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -6,082; MinLat: 51,25 - MaxLong: 2,335; MaxLat: 53,535 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
2001 - 2018
Taxonomic coverage
Bacillariophyceae [WoRMS]
Chlorophyceae [WoRMS]
Cyanophyceae [WoRMS]
Dinophyceae [WoRMS]
Euglenoidea [WoRMS]
Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC]
Contributors
Marine Biological Association of the UK; The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data (DASSH), more
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), more, data creator
Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data manager
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2021-03-01
Information last updated: 2022-09-12
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