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Zooplankton were collected during the winter-spring transition during two cruises of the Aurora Australis: SIPEX in 2007 and SIPEX II in 2012. As part of the collections sea ice cores were collected to describe the ice habitat during the period of zooplankton collections. Ice cores were taken with a 20 cm diameter SIPRE corer and sectioned in the field with an ice core. Temperature was measured in the section using a spike thermometer and slivers of each section were melted without filtered water to record salinity. The remainders of each section were melted at 4 degrees Celsius in filtered seawater and the melted water was used to measure chlorophyll a concentration, and meiofauna species and abundance. Meiofauna were counted and identified using a Leica M12 microscope: to species in most cases and down to stage during 2012.Lineage
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PurposeThe dataset was used to describe the zooplankton grazers living as meiofauna within the brine channel system of sea ice.
Data time period: 2007-09-10 to 2007-10-31
Data time period: 2012-09-15 to 2012-11-03
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- DOI : 10.4225/15/5B3AF17E37BD5
- global : AAS_4140_IceMeiofauna