Siokou-Frangou, Ioanna; Christou, Epaminondas; Zervoudaki, Soultana (2008): Mesozooplankton abundance from net APRIL-2000-K1mockness [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.686040
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Zervoudaki, Soultana; Christou, Epaminondas; Nielsen, Torkel Gissel; Siokou-Frangou, Ioanna; Assimakopoulou, Georgia; Giannakourou, Antonia; Maar, Marie; Pagou, Kalliopi; Krasakopoulou, Evangelia; Christaki, Urania; Moraitou-Apostolopoulou, Maria (2007): The importance of small-sized copepods in a frontal area of the Aegean Sea. Journal of Plankton Research, 29(4), 317-338, https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbm018
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Funding:
Fourth Framework Programme (FP4), grant/award no. MAS3970148: Key coastal processes in the mesotropic Skagerrak and the oligotrophic Northern Aegean: a comparative study
Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), grant/award no. 36949: Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes
Coverage:
Latitude: 39.429167 * Longitude: 25.733333
Date/Time Start: 2000-03-31T13:30:00 * Date/Time End: 2000-03-31T13:30:00
Minimum DEPTH, water: 5.0 m * Maximum DEPTH, water: 80.0 m
Event(s):
APRIL-2000-K1mockness (K1) * Latitude: 39.429167 * Longitude: 25.733333 * Date/Time: 2000-03-31T13:30:00 * Location: Aegean Sea * Campaign: APRIL-2000 * Basis: Aegaeo * Method/Device: MOCNESS opening/closing plankton net (MOC)
Comment:
The samplings of zooplankton were taken with the Mockness net. The type of tows was oblique. The Mockness net is comprised of nine nets that have mesh size 200_m, its mouth area is 1m2 and the net width is 1m. Both opening and closure of the net are achieved automatically through means of a computer (Wiebe et al. 1985, doi:10.1007/BF00397811). Mockness is manufactured in such a way, so that each tow can be performed at a 45o corner, which is usually achieved when the speed of the vessel equals roughly to 2kn. The filtered water volume was measured by the MOCNESS flow meter.
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
736 data points