Dataset: oithona_abund
Deployment: KH68-4

Abundance data of Oithona species from the Pacific and Indian Oceans Related data object: Oithona station data

Principal Investigator:

Dr Shuhei Nishida (Ocean Research Institute - University of Tokyo, ORI)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Ms Dicky Allison (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Project:

Nishida-Pacific-Oithona (Nishida-Oithona)

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Version Date:

2010-11-23

Data URL:

https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset-deployment/452823/data

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Description

Abundance data of Oithona species from the Pacific and Indian Oceans

Related data object: Oithona station data

References:
Nishida, S. and R. Marumo 1982. Vertical distribution of cyclopoid copepods of the family Oithonidae in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans. Bull. Plankton Soc. Japan, 29: 99-118.

Nishida, S. 1985. Taxonomy and distribution of the family Oithonidae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Bull. Ocean Res. Inst. Univ. Tokyo, No. 20, 167 pp.

Nishida, S. 1985. Pelagic copepods from Kabira Bay, Ishigaki Island, southwestern Japan, with the description of a new species of the genus Pseudodiaptomus. Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab. 30: 125-144.

Nishida, S. 1986. A new species of Oithona (Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from the neritic waters of Australia. J. Plankton Res. 8: 907-915.

Pinkaew, K., S. Nishida and M. Terazaki 1998. Distribution of zooplankton in the Bangpakong River estuary and off Sriracha coast, the Gulf of Thailand, with special reference to copepods. Proceedings of the Eighth Joint Seminar on Marine Science: 104-113.

Contact Information:
Shuhei Nishida
Ocean Research Institute
University of Tokyo
1-15-1 Minamidai, Nakano
Tokyo 164-8639, Japan
Phone: +81-3-5351-6475
Fax: +81-3-5351-6481
e-mail: nishida@ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Methods & Sampling

Dataset acquisition description

Abundance data of Oithona species from the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Data Processing Description

Dataset Processing Description

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Instruments

Hand-held plankton net

Supplied Name: Hand-net

Supplied Description:

Hand-held plankton net

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Hand-held plankton net

Acronym: Hand-net

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/22/

Generic Description:

A Hand-held plankton net is a fine-meshed net designed for sampling microzooplankton, mesozooplankton or nekton.

Norpac Net

Supplied Name: Norpac XX13

Supplied Description:

Plankton net fitted with XX13 bolted silk gauze netting (mesh size, 0.095 mm).

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Norpac Net

Acronym: Norpac

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L22/current/NETT0122/

Generic Description:

Developed by Motoda (1957), the North Pacific Standard net or Norpac Net, has a 45 cm mouth diameter with a conical net length of 180 cm and is fitted with netting (mesh size, 0.095 mm or .33mm - GG54) made of coarse bolting silk.

Parameters

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
cruiseid	short identifier of the cruise		cruiseid
year_start	year cruise starts		year_start
instr	instrument used to sample		instrument
station	station name		station
lat	latitude of the station North is positive, South is negative.	decimal degrees.	lat
lon	longitude of the station East is positive, West is negative	decimal degrees.	lon
mmdd_start	month and day of start of station; two digit month, two digit day		no_bcodmo_term
mmdd_end	month and day of end of station; two digit month, two digit day		no_bcodmo_term
time_start_local	time the station starts	24 hour clock	time_start_local
time_end_local	time the station ends	24 hour clock	time_end_local
depth_range	range of depths sampled by the nets; for some stations this is one depth	meters	no_bcodmo_term
species	includes copepodites, number of males, stages and totals for some stations		species
num_per_m3	number of individual per cubic meter		no_bcodmo_term

Database

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Dataset: oithona_abund
Deployment: KH68-4

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Database

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Dataset: oithona_abundDeployment: KH68-4

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Dataset: oithona_abund
Deployment: KH68-4