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Finnish Baltic Sea phytoplankton monitoring, KPLANK database

Citation

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE; (2019); Finnish Baltic Sea phytoplankton monitoring, KPLANK database

Contact: Lehtinen, Sirpa

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This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

The KPLANK database includes data on phytoplankton, covering the Finnish coastal areas as well as the offshore areas of the Baltic Sea. The quantitative data mainly stem from the Finnish national monitoring program and statutory monitoring programs. In total the database contain approximately 240 000 quantitative records including size classes. The data span from 1937 to present. The database is regularly maintained and data is added continuously.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Plankton > Phytoplankton

Keywords:

Marine, Long-term monitoring, Species distribution, ANE, Baltic, Bacteria, Chromista, Plantae, Protozoa

Geographical coverage

ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

From 1937 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage

Bacteria [WoRMS]

Chromista [WoRMS]

Plantae [WoRMS]

Protozoa [WoRMS]

Parameters

Abundance, Biomass, Cell size

Contributors

Finnish Environment Institute (FEI/SYKE), more, data creator

Lehtinen, Sirpa
Rissanen, Jouko

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Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: In Progress

Data type: Data

Data origin: Monitoring: field survey

Metadatarecord created: 2017-07-05

Information last updated: 2019-08-06

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