Plankton Production season off Portuguese coast from 1986 to 1987

Maria Emília Cunha; Hortense Afonso; Anabela Farinha; Isabel Menezes; Fátima Quintela; Francisca Varela; Teresa Lago; Fernando Sousa

doi:10.15468/ng9q4r

Plankton Production season off Portuguese coast from 1986 to 1987

Citation

Cunha M E, Afonso H, Farinha A, Menezes I, Quintela F, Varela F, Lago T, Sousa F, Niza H, dos Santos A (2024). Plankton Production season off Portuguese coast from 1986 to 1987. Version 1.25. IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ng9q4r accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

The “Épocas de Postura da Sardinha” project aimed to obtain information on seasonal planktonic community abundance and diversity, contributing to the biological oceanography characterisation of the sardine reproduction season in Portugal.

The data presented refer to monthly sampling carried out between October 1986 to December 1987 in four transects off Portuguese shelf with RV "Noruega". The zooplankton sampling was carried out using a Bongo net - of 60 cm in diameter and 335 and 500 μm in mesh opening - in double oblique trawls, from around 5 meters up the bottom to the surface. The volume of filtered water was determined using a previously calibrated flowmeter.

This report is a repository of the identification and enumeration data of zooplankton samples. It is intended to contribute to the establishment of a zooplankton database for the Portuguese coast and make it accessible to interested users. In this sense, data processing is minimal, with care taken to control the quality of the data and to standardize the units in which the values are expressed.

Taxonomic Coverages

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Chordata
rank: phylum
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Actinopterygii
rank: class
Hexanauplia
rank: class
Clupeiformes
rank: order
Calanoida
rank: order
Clupeidae
rank: family
Euchaetidae
rank: family
Sardina
rank: family
Euchaeta
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

Portugal Coast

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Maria Emília Cunha
originator
position: Researcher at INIP and IPMA, coordinator of the project that created the dataset. Collected and processed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Hortense Afonso
originator
position: Researcher at INIP and IPMA, participant of the project that created the dataset. Collected and processed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Anabela Farinha
originator
position: Researcher at INIP and IPMA, participant of the project that created the dataset. Collected and processed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Isabel Menezes
originator
position: Researcher at INIP and IPMA, participant of the project that created the dataset. Collected and processed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Fátima Quintela
originator
position: Laboratory technician at INIP and IPMA, processed and analyzed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Francisca Varela
originator
position: Laboratory technician at INIP, processed and analyzed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Teresa Lago
originator
position: Laboratory technician at INIP, processed and analyzed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Fernando Sousa
originator
position: Laboratory technician at INIP and IPMA, collected and processed the samples.
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)

Henrique Niza
metadata author
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)
email: henrique.niza@ipma.pt

Antonina dos Santos
metadata author
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)
email: antonina@ipma.pt

Henrique Niza
user
email: henrique.niza@ipma.pt

Antonina dos Santos
administrative point of contact
Instituto Nacional de Investigação das Pescas (INIP); Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)
email: antonina@ipma.pt

Henrique Niza
administrative point of contact
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA)
email: henrique.niza@ipma.pt