PANGAEA_992713 Copepods abundance from surface to mesopelagic zone during April 2015 in the tropical-subtropical Atlantic Ocean (MAFIA) Fernández de Puelles, María Luz; Sarmiento-Lezcano, Airam Nauzet; Hernández-León, Santiago Copepods abundance from surface to mesopelagic zone during April 2015 in the tropical-subtropical Atlantic Ocean (MAFIA) 2026-03-03 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.992713 Investigator María Luz Fernández de Puelles mluz.fernandez@ieo.csic.es Earth Science Event label Cruise/expedition Station label Sample comment Depth, water, top/minimum Depth, water, bottom/maximum Polygonatum verticillatum Volume Day-Night comment Taxon/taxa Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Taxon/taxa, unique identification Taxon/taxa, unique identification (Semantic URI) Copepoda geoscientificInformation Copepoda Diel Vertical Migration latitudinal variability MAFIA MAFIA_MOC_10D MAFIA_MOC_10N MAFIA_MOC_11D MAFIA_MOC_11N MAFIA_MOC_12D MAFIA_MOC_12N MAFIA_MOC_2D MAFIA_MOC_2N MAFIA_MOC_3D MAFIA_MOC_3N MAFIA_MOC_4D MAFIA_MOC_4N MAFIA_MOC_5D MAFIA_MOC_5N MAFIA_MOC_6D MAFIA_MOC_6N MAFIA_MOC_7D MAFIA_MOC_7N MAFIA_MOC_8D MAFIA_MOC_8N MAFIA_MOC_9D MAFIA_MOC_9N mesopelagic MOCNESS opening/closing plankton net 1 sqm tropical-subtropical Atlantic ocean Zooplankton Visual identification Reference in WoRMS Standardized value Hespérides 2015-04-07 2015-04-28 Complete -10.0813 25.3464 -31.8851 -17.4206 MAFIA Migrants and Active Flux In the Atlantic Ocean SUMMER Sustainable Management of Mesopelagic Resources unrestricted CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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Bremen Bremen 28359 Germany online 89149 data points text/tab-separated-values Fernández de Puelles, María Luz; Gazá, Magdalena; Santandreu, Mar; Hernández-León, Santiago (2023): Diel vertical migration of copepods in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 219, 103147, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103147

This dataset contains values of copepods abundance collected during the MAFIA cruise from 31st of March to the 29th of April 2015, from Salvador de Bahía (Brazil) to the Canary Islands (Spain). Species of copepods were sampled using the Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS-1 m²) zooplankton net with a 0.2 mm mesh size and with several nets for collecting samples from 8 different depth layers (0–100 m, separated in two layers depending on the physical-biological scenario, 100–200, 200–300, 300–400, 400–500, 500–600, and 600–800 m depth layers). Collected specimens MOCNESS-1 samples were preserved in 5% buffered formalin, and specimens were sorted out later. All individuals were counted and the dominant species of copepods and cladocerans were identified, whenever possible. All data were standardized to number of individuals (#/m³) by layer. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.992713"!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOCNESS MOCNESS opening/closing plankton net 1 sqm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume Volume http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1080 Copepoda https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103147 Diel vertical migration of copepods in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIO_Hesperides Hespérides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_classification Phylum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus Genus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_%28biology%29 Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species Species https://www.marinespecies.org Reference in WoRMS DIF 9.4 2026-03-03 2026-09-15