10.1594/PANGAEA.929318García-Corral, Lara SLara SGarcía-Corral0000-0002-0031-5569Duarte, Carlos ManuelCarlos ManuelDuarte0000-0002-1213-1361Agustí, SusanaSusanaAgustí0000-0003-0536-7293PANGAEA2021coastal ecosystemdriversEstuarymetabolismOpen oceanpicoplanktonPrimary productionRespirationEvent labelDATE/TIMELatitude of eventLongitude of eventSample IDStation labelOcean and sea regionArea/localityEcosystemDepth, nominalDEPTH, waterTemperature, waterSalinityRespiration rate, oxygen, communityRespiration, oxygen, community, standard errorNet community production of oxygenNet community production of oxygen, standard errorGross primary production of oxygenGross primary production of oxygen, standard errorNitratePhosphateChlorophyll aProkaryotes, heterotrophSynechococcusPicoeukaryotesProchlorococcusCTD/RosetteBottle, Niskin 10-LMulti-Parameter Water Quality Sonde, YSI EXO1Titration, WinklerCalculatedSegmented flow auto-analyzer, Skalar Analytical B.V, San++FluorometerCounting by flow cytometerSolander_6147FK150301MALASPINA_LEG3MALASPINA_LEG4SolanderFalkorHespérides2011-03-10T00:00:00/2015-03-24T00:00:00Dataset10.3389/fmars.2020.5821361576 data pointstext/tab-separated-valuesCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalHere we present a total of 86 stations sampled in six different areas along the Western Australian Coast in the southeastern Indian Ocean. This dataset includes measurements of planktonic net community production (NCP), gross primary production (GPP) and community respiration (CR) off coastal, estuarine and open ocean surface (0.5–3 m) waters between 15º - 36º South and 107º - 122º East. We also reported the following data for each station: temperature (ºC), salinity, nitrate (µM), phosphate (µM), chlorophyll-a (mg/m³), heterotrophic prokaryote abundance (cells/ml), Synechococcus abundance (cells/ml), picoeukaryotes abundance (cells/ml) and Prochlorococcus abundance (cells/ml).107.24122.156-35.98-15.035Indian Ocean