The Australian Phytoplankton Database (1844 onwards)

Claire Davies

doi:10.15468/my3fxc

The Australian Phytoplankton Database (1844 onwards)

Citation

CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC): The Australian Phytoplankton Database (1844 onwards) https://doi.org/10.15468/my3fxc accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-11-19. accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-27.

Description

There have been many individual phytoplankton datasets collected across Australia since the mid 1900s, but most are unavailable to the research community. We have searched archives, contacted researchers, and scanned the primary and grey literature to collate 3,665,221 records of marine phytoplankton species from Australian waters from 1844 to the present. Many of these are small datasets collected for local questions, but combined they provide over 170 years of data on phytoplankton communities in Australian waters. Units and taxonomy have been standardised, obviously erroneous data removed, and all metadata included. We have lodged this dataset with the Australian Ocean Data Network (http://imos.aodn.org.au/), allowing public access. The Australian Phytoplankton Database will be invaluable for global change studies, as it allows analysis of ecological indicators of climate change and eutrophication (e.g., changes in distribution; diatom:dinoflagellate ratios). In addition, the standardised conversion of abundance records to biomass provides modellers with quantifiable data to initialise and validate ecosystem models of lower marine trophic levels. This version of the database has been modified by 1) excluded existing data from IMOS, Antarctic Projects (597,599,744,746,748) as recorded in in imos_plankton.imos_apd_metadata 2) absence records have been removed.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Cyanobacteria
rank: phylum
Myzozoa
rank: phylum
Ochrophyta
rank: phylum
Chlorophyta
rank: phylum
Euglenozoa
rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

Australian waters and Southern Ocean

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Claire Davies
originator
position: Experimental Scientist
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU

Dave Watts
metadata author
position: OBIS Node Manager
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Castray Esplanade
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU
Telephone: +61 3 6232 5062
email: dave.watts@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au

Dave Watts
user
email: dave.watts@csiro.au

Claire Davies
administrative point of contact
position: Experimental Scientist
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU