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The Australian Zooplankton Database (1938 onwards)

Australian Ocean Data Network
CSIRO O&A, Information & Data Centre (Point of contact) Davies, Claire (Point of contact)
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Zooplankton are the key trophic link between primary producers and fish in pelagic ecosystems. Historically, there are few zooplankton time series in Australia, with no datasets longer than two years prior to 2008. Here we compile 98,676 abundance records of more than 1,000 zooplankton taxa from unpublished research cruises, student projects, published literature and the recent Integrated Marine Observing System. This dataset covers the entire coastal and shelf region of Australia and dates back to 1938. Most records are for copepods, but there are also data for other taxa such as decapods, chaetognaths, thaliaceans, appendicularians and cladocerans. Metadata are provided for each record, including dates, coordinates and information on mesh size and sampling methods. To facilitate analysis across the multiple datasets, we have updated the species names according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS; http://www.marinespecies.org/about.php) and converted units to abundance per m3. These data will be valuable for studies of biodiversity, biogeography, impacts of climate change and ecosystem health. We encourage researchers holding additional Australian zooplankton data to contact us and contribute their data to the dataset so we can periodically publish updates.

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Progress Code: onGoing
Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded
Statement: The data sources are varied and the data does not belong to the custodian of this schema, so the quality of the data cannot be verified. Persons should refer to the Marlin record for each of the projects included for further information.

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If using data from Project 599 the National Reference Stations or 597 the Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder, please use the following acknowledgement: "Data sourced from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Super Science Initiative." If most of the database is used or it is used as a whole, please use the following citation: Davies, C. H. et al. Over 75 years of zooplankton data from Australia. Ecology 95, 3229-3229, doi:10.1890/14-0697.1 (2014). If individual project data is used, please acknowledge use of data as per the custodian information in the zooplankton_metadata.csv file.
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Claire H. Davies1
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Amelia J. Armstrong4
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Mark Baird1
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Frank Coman2
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Steve Edgar2
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Daniel Gaughan3
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Jack Greenwood4
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Felipe Gusmão5
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Natasha Henschke6
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J. Anthony Koslow8
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Sophie C. Leterme10
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A. David McKinnon11
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Margaret Miller2
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Sarah Pausina2
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Julian Uribe Palomino2
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Ruben-Lee Roennfeldt13
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Peter Rothlisberg2
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Anita Slotwinski2
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Joanna Strzelecki8
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Iain M. Suthers6
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Kerrie M. Swadling14
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Sam Talbot11
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Mark Tonks2
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David H. Tranter1
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Jock W. Young1
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Anthony J. Richardson2
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Dutton Park
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Qld 4001
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Australia 3 Department of Fisheries
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Govt. of Western Australia
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North Beach WA 6920
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Australia 4 School of Biological Sciences
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The University of Queensland
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Australia 11 Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Townsville MC
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Australia. 12 School of Marine and Tropical Biology
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James Cook University
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Townsville
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Australia 13 School of Life and Environmental Sciences
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Data time period: 1938-05-26

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Animals/Invertebrates | AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | BIOSPHERE | Boats and Small Vessels | CMAR Marine Plankton | Coastal Habitat | Centopages furcatus | Clausocalanus arcuicornis | Clausocalanus furcatus | Corycaeus agilis | Cosmocalanus darwinii | Countries | Australia | EARTH SCIENCE | Estuarine Habitat | Microscopes | Optical Microscopes | Nets | Plankton Nets/Drop Nets | Nets | Plankton Nets/Drop Nets | Zooplankton Nets | Oithona plumifera | Oncaea venusta | Pelagic Habitat | PLANKTON | Plankton | PROTISTS | Paracalanus aculeatus | Paracalanus indicus | Reef Habitat | Temora turbinata | Zooplankton | biota | oceans |

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  • global : 1a18a9f9-7ef8-4dee-86ae-87a88b51000b
  • Local : Marlin Record Number: 14178
  • Local : Anzlic Identifier: ANZCW0306014178
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