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Gridded abundance maps of diatoms and dinoflagellates from the North Atlantic and North Sea
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); (2015): Gridded abundance maps of diatoms and dinoflagellates from the North Atlantic region; European Marine Observation Data Network (EMODnet) Biology project (www.emodnet-biology.eu), funded by the European Commission’s Directorate - General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5473
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Description
Gridded abundance maps representing diatoms and dinoflagellates in the North Atlantic and North Sea between 1958 and 2012. Phytoplankton organisms are responsible for about 45% of annual global photosynthesis. They are as such vital for the functioning of marine food webs (considered in MSFD descriptor 4) and are the main drivers of the global biogeochemical cycles. This product was developed with DIVA (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis) and the scale represents log-transformed abundance. Data was provided by SAHFOS (Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) data (phytoplankton) from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS)).

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Analysis, Interpolated mapping, A, North Atlantic, ANE, France, North Sea, Bacillariophyceae, Dinophyceae

Geographical coverage
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]
ANE, France, North Sea

Temporal coverage
1958 - 2012

Taxonomic coverage
Bacillariophyceae [WoRMS]
Dinophyceae [WoRMS]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creator
Tyberghein, Lennert
Claus, Simon
Hernandez, Francisco
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), moredata creator
Herman, Peter

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data products
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2016-10-18
Information last updated: 2022-08-09
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