Pitta, Paraskevi; Giannakourou, Antonia (2008): Ciliate abundance and biomass in water samples collected at Station MARCH-1997-GN36199704603MNB04 in the Aegean Sea [dataset]. Hellenic Center of Marine Research, Institut of Oceanography, Greece, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.684674
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Project(s):
Funding:
Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), grant/award no. 36949: Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes
Coverage:
Latitude: 36.250000 * Longitude: 24.105000
Date/Time Start: 1997-04-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-04-01T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, water: 1 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 100 m
Event(s):
MARCH-1997-GN36199704603MNB04 * Latitude: 36.250000 * Longitude: 24.105000 * Date/Time: 1997-04-01T00:00:00 * Method/Device: Bottle, Niskin 8-L (NIS_8L)
Comment:
Ciliate cell sizes were measured and converted into cell volumes using appropriate geometric formulae (Peuto-Moreau, 1991). For biomass estimation the conversion factor 140 fgC µm^-3 was used (Putt and Stoecker, 1989).
Borax-buffered formalin (final concentration 2% formaldehyde). Samples for ciliate counting were stored at 4°C in the dark until observation. For ciliate identification and enumeration 100 ml samples were left for 24 h in sedimentation cylinders and then observed under an inverted epifluorescence microscope.
Parameter(s):
# | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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1 | DEPTH, water | Depth water | m | Geocode | ||
2 | Ciliates | Ciliates | #/l | Pitta, Paraskevi | Epifluorescence microscopy | |
3 | Ciliates, biomass as carbon | Ciliates C | µg/l | Pitta, Paraskevi |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
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