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Zooplankton biomass data have been collected in Australian waters since the 1930s, yet most datasets have been unavailable to the research community. We have searched archives, contacted researchers, and scanned the primary and grey literature to collate this dataset of marine zooplankton biomass from Australian waters, within the geographical extents of 0-60S, 100-160E. Many of these are small-scale datasets , when combined, they provide over 85 years of large-scale zooplankton community biomass data for Australian waters from 1932 to the present. The data have been standardised, erroneous data removed, and all metadata included. We have lodged this dataset with the Australian Ocean Data Network (http://imos.aodn.org.au/), allowing full public access. The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database will be invaluable for global change studies, research assessing trophic level linkages, and for initialising and assessing biogeochemical and ecosystem models of lower marine trophic levels.A snapshot of the Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database as of early 2020 (2020-04) has been assigned a DOI and will be maintained in perpetuity by the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN). The ongoing version of this database will be freely available through the AODN Portal (http://portal.aodn.org.au/) in the near future.
The relevant dataset at AODN is described here: http://catalogue-rc.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.show?uuid=64533cd3-0a63-4152-823b-852b1901d6c9
This is the bibliographic reference for the dataset and the AODN metadata record that describes it:
McEnnulty FR, Davies CH, Armstrong AO, Atkins N, Coman F, Clementson L, Edgar S, Eriksen RS, Everett JD, Koslow JA, Longborg C, McKinnon AD, Miller M, O’Brien TD, Pausina SA, Uribe-Palomino J, Rochester W, Rothlisberg PC, Slotwinski A, Strzelecki J, Suthers IM, Swadling KM, Tonks ML, van Ruth PD, Young JW, Richardson AJ (2019), The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database (1932 - 2019). Australian Ocean Data Network - DOI: 10.26198/5c4170d42ab24 (http://dx.doi.org/10.26198/5c4170d42ab24).
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CreditWe acknowledge the contributions from all collaborators and their institutions. If data from multiple projects are used, please acknowledge this publication; if individual project data are used, please acknowledge use of data as per the custodian information. We would also encourage the data user to enter into collaboration with the researchers involved in the data they use – understanding the history of a project will add value to the research. The relevant acknowledgement data is available from the metadata files attached to the data. If using data from Project 599 the National Reference Stations or Project 597 the Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder, please use the following acknowledgement: “Data sourced from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) – IMOS is a national collaborative research infrastructure, supported by the Australian Government.” For Project 591, please use the following acknowledgement: "Data for this project was collected with support from Healthy Waterways, Queensland ARC LPO883663" For Project 1109 , please use the following acknowledgement: "COPEPOD: the global plankton database (2018) available at http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/copepod/ "
Felicity R. McEnnulty 1
Claire H. Davies 1
Asia O Armstrong 4
Natalia Atkins 12
Frank Coman 2
Lesley Clementson 1
Steven Edgar 2
Ruth S. Eriksen 1
Jason D. Everett 8,9
J. Tony Koslow
Christian Lønborg 6
A. David McKinnon 6
Margaret Miller 2
Todd D. O'Brien 11
Sarah A. Pausina 2,4
Julian Uribe Palomino 2
Wayne Rochester 2
Peter C. Rothlisberg 2
Anita Slotwinski 2
Joanna Strzelecki 3
Iain M. Suthers 4
Kerrie M. Swadling 5
Mark L. Tonks 2
Paul van Ruth 10
Jock W. Young 1
Anthony J. Richardson 2,7
Affiliations: 1. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia 2. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, St Lucia, QLD, 4067, Australia 3. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Indian Ocean Marine Reasearch Centre, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia 4. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia 5. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, TAS, 7001, Australia 6. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia 7. Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia 8. Fisheries and Marine Environmental Research Lab, School of BEES, University of NSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052 Australia 9. Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia 10. South Australian Research and Development Institute – Aquatic Sciences, Henley Beach, SA, 5022, Australia 11. NOAA Fisheries - COPEPOD, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA 12. Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia 13. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92093, USA
Data time period: 1932
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