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The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database (1932 onwards)

Created 12/10/2024

Updated 12/10/2024

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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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Title The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database (1932 onwards)
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/613a57c0-72e2-404f-99cf-c5b3f1ebb123
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Felicity.Mcennulty@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1932
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[110.0, -60.0], [160.0, -60.0], [160.0, 0.0], [110.0, 0.0], [110.0, -60.0]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

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This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database (1932 onwards)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/the-australian-zooplankton-biomass-database-1932-onwards

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