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How the Blue Economy affects plankton dynamics in the BPNS: data and scripts
Citable as data publication
Stevens, M.; Everaert, G.; Pint, S.; De Troch, M.; Faculty of Sciences, Ghent University; Flanders Marine Institute: Belgium; (2023): How the Blue Economy affects plankton dynamics in the BPNS: data and scripts. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/603

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

Description
Input data, R scripts and results of a mechanistic model that uses near real-time data from the Belgian Part of the North Sea (2011-2017) to investigate the effects of hypothetical mussel aquaculture and offshore wind farm scenarios in the BPNS. more

This archive contains the input data, R scripts and final results of a mechanistic model that uses near real-time data from the Belgian Part of the North Sea (2011-2017) to investigate the effects of hypothetical mussel aquaculture and offshore wind farm scenarios in the BPNS. This study was performed in the scope of a master thesis for the International Master of Science in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea) conducted at Ugent in collaboration with VLIZ. Input data are zooplankton and phytoplankton abundances, nutrients, Sea Surface Temperature (SST), photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) from the LifeWatch data and infrastructure, funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). Water temperature data for one of the locations was obtained from Flemish Banks Monitoring Network at https://meetnetvlaamsebanken.be/.


Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton, Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Aquaculture, Ecosystem modeling, Offshore wind farms, Belgian part of the North Sea

Geographical coverage
Belgian part of the North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 January 2011 - 31 December 2017
Not relevant

Parameters
Ammonium (NH4+)-nitrogen (N) Methodology
Chlorophyll a+ Methodology
Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) Methodology
Nitrate (NO3-) Methodology
Nitrite (NO2-) Methodology
Phosphate (PO43-)-phosphorus (P) Methodology
Sea surface temperature Methodology
Silicate (SiO44-) Methodology
Zooplankton density Methodology
Ammonium (NH4+)-nitrogen (N): Skalar AutoAnalyzer

Chlorophyll a+: HPLC
Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN): Skalar AutoAnalyzer

Nitrate (NO3-): Skalar AutoAnalyzer


Nitrate (NO3-): Skalar AutoAnalyzer

Nitrite (NO2-): Skalar AutoAnalyzer


Nitrite (NO2-): Skalar AutoAnalyzer

Phosphate (PO43-)-phosphorus (P): Skalar AutoAnalyzer


Phosphate (PO43-)-phosphorus (P): Skalar AutoAnalyzer

Sea surface temperature: CTD
CTD type: SBE-19 (www.seabird.com); depth profiles of temperature and salinity equipped with a OBS probe for relative turbidity measurements
Silicate (SiO44-): Skalar AutoAnalyzer

Zooplankton density: zooscan analysis
zooscan analysis

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creatordata creator
Universiteit Gent; Faculteit Wetenschappen, moredata creatordata creator

Related datasets
Source datasets:
LifeWatch observatory data: nutrient, pigment, suspended matter and secchi measurements in the Belgian Part of the North Sea, more
LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations by imaging (ZooScan) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea, more
Monitoring Network Flemish Banks, more
Other relation:
Data, scripts and model output to perform spatiotemporal analysis of plankton drivers in the Belgian part of the North Sea., more

Project
LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu, more
Blue-Cloud: Blue-Cloud: Piloting innovative services for Marine Research & the Blue Economy, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Stevens, M. (2023). How the Blue Economy affects plankton dynamics in the Belgian part of the North Sea: A modeling approach. MSc Thesis. Ghent University/VLIZ: Gent/Oostende. 35 pp., more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Software/models/scripts
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2023-06-01
Information last updated: 2023-06-01
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