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Hyperiid amphipod abundances from the California Current (24-32°N)
Citation
Lavaniegos Bertha E. (2020). Hyperiid amphipod abundances from the California Current (24-32°N). SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/75270
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Description
The California Current system (CCS) comprise two large regions, one subarctic from central California to British Columbia, and other subtropical from Point Conception, California to the tip of Baja California peninsula. To progress in the knowledge of the subtropical part of the CCS, was created the IMECOCAL program, which means “Mexican Research of the California Current”. The data base presented here is a product of the zooplankton collection during ten IMECOCAL cruises. more

Zooplankton samples were collected with oblique net tows in the upper 200 m (or from 10 m above the sea floor in shallow stations), using a Bongo net of 500 µm mesh width and mouth diameter of 0.7 m. Four cruises correspond to the four seasons of 2005 and the rest are summer cruises preformed during 2002-2008. Hyperiid amphipods were identified using mainly the taxonomic key for Hyperiidea of the world oceans (Vinogradov et al., 1996). The total number of samples analyzed were 482 but hyperiids were absent in 18. The positive samples were 75% of the oceanic stations collected during nighttime, and the rest were from neritic stations (11% nighttime and 14% daytime). The total number of species found are 125, with strong dominance of Vibilia armata, Lestrigonus schizogeneios, Primno brevidens, and Eupronoe minuta. The abundances of these and other common species changes seasonally as described by Lavaniegos & Hereu (2009), and interannually as observed in summer of the period 2002-2008 for the northern Baja California region (Lavaniegos, 2017) and the Gulf of Ulloa and offshore region (Lavaniegos, under review).

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Plankton collecting devices, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Hyperiidae Dana, 1852

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -118,79; MinLat: 24,33 - MaxLong: -112,42; MaxLat: 31,69 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
1 July 2002 - 31 July 2008

Taxonomic coverage
Hyperiidae Dana, 1852 [WoRMS]

Parameter
Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC]

Contributors
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), moredata manager
Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education (CICESE)data creator
Lavaniegos, Bertha E.

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Publication
Describing this dataset
Lavaniegos, B.E.; Hereu, C.M. (2009). Seasonal variation in hyperiid amphipod abundance and diversity and influence of mesoscale structures off Baja California. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 394: 137-152. https://dx.doi.org/10.3354/meps08285

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2021-01-13
Information last updated: 2021-01-22
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