Biogeography of key mesozooplankton species in the North Atlantic and egg production of Calanus finmarchicus

Type Article
Date 2015
Language English
Author(s) Melle W.1, Runge J. A.2, Head E.3, Plourde S.4, Castellani C.5, Licandro P.5, Pierson J.6, Jonasdottir S. H.7, Johnson C.3, Broms C.1, Debes H.8, Falkenhaug T.1, Gaard E.8, Gislason A.9, Heath M. R.10, Niehoff B.11, Nielsen T. G.7, Pepin P.12, Stenevik E. K.1, Chust G.13
Affiliation(s) 1 : Inst Marine Res, Res Grp Plankton, POB 1870, N-5817 Bergen, Norway.
2 : Univ Maine, Gulf Maine Res Inst, Sch Marine Sci, Portland, ME 04101 USA.
3 : Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Bedford Inst Oceanog, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2, Canada.
4 : Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Direct Sci Ocean & Environm, Inst Maurice Lamontagne, Mont Joli, PQ G5H 3Z4, Canada.
5 : Sir Alister Hardy Fdn Ocean Sci SAHFOS, Plymouth PL1 2PB, Devon, England.
6 : Univ Maryland, Ctr Environm Sci, Horn Point Lab, Cambridge, MD 21613 USA.
7 : Tech Univ Denmark, Natl Inst Aquat Resources, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark.
8 : Faroe Marine Res Inst, DK-110 Torshavn, Faroe Islands, Denmark.
9 : Marine Res Inst, IS-121 Reykjavik, Iceland.
10 : Univ Strathclyde, Dept Math & Stat, MASTS Marine Populat Modeling Grp, Glasgow G1 1XH, Lanark, Scotland.
11 : Alfred Wegener Inst Polar & Marine Res, Polar Biol Oceanog, D-27570 Bremerhaven, Germany.
12 : Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Ctr, St John, NF A1C 5X1, Canada.
13 : AZTI Tecnalia, Div Marine Res, Txatxarramendi Ugartea, Sukarrieta, Spain.
Source Earth System Science Data (1866-3508) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2015 , Vol. 7 , N. 2 , P. 223-230
DOI 10.5194/essd-7-223-2015
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Note Special issue : EURO-BASIN data compilations for an integrated analysis of living resources in the North Atlantic Ocean
Abstract Here we present a new, pan-North-Atlantic compilation of data on key mesozooplankton species, including the most important copepod, Calanus finmarchicus. Distributional data of eight representative zooplankton taxa, from recent (2000-2009) Continuous Plankton Recorder data, are presented, along with basin-scale data of the phytoplankton colour index. Then we present a compilation of data on C. finmarchicus, including observations of abundance, demography, egg production and female size, with accompanying data on temperature and chlorophyll.
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Melle W., Runge J. A., Head E., Plourde S., Castellani C., Licandro P., Pierson J., Jonasdottir S. H., Johnson C., Broms C., Debes H., Falkenhaug T., Gaard E., Gislason A., Heath M. R., Niehoff B., Nielsen T. G., Pepin P., Stenevik E. K., Chust G. (2015). Biogeography of key mesozooplankton species in the North Atlantic and egg production of Calanus finmarchicus. Earth System Science Data, 7(2), 223-230. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-223-2015 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00332/44366/