SHARK - National zooplankton monitoring in Sweden since 1979

Sampling event
Latest version published by Test Organization #1 on Mar 2, 2021 Test Organization #1
Publication date:
2 March 2021
Published by:
Test Organization #1
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Zooplankton have been monitored in Sweden since 1979.

The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Stockholm University, Umeå University, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and Gothenburg University.

Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Data are collected and analyzed according to the HELCOM COMBINE Manual - Part C Annex C7 Mesozooplankton (https://helcom.fi/media/publications/Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-mesozooplankton.pdf) or similar methods.

"Mesozooplankton constitute an important part of zooplankton in the pelagic food webs, since these are the organisms representing the link between primary producers (phytoplankton) and higher trophic levels (zooplanktivorous fish and invertebrates).[...] The sampling of mesozooplankton serves [...] to describe the species composition and the spatial distribution of mesozooplankton abundance and biomass" (HELCOM COMBINE Manual https://helcom.fi/media/publications/Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-mesozooplankton.pdf).

Information about the program and the methods are also available in Swedish at https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/djurplankton-trend--och-omradesovervakning.html

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 6,759 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
6759
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
517983
Occurrence 
103072

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Stockholm University, Umeå University, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Gothenburg University, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2020). National zooplankton monitoring in Sweden since 1979.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Test Organization #1. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0b6b4c26-55d7-4b6d-8d29-d1e86a64e1a8.  Test Organization #1 publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Secretariat.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Samplingevent

Contacts

SHARK SMHI
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Data manager
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute,
  • Sven Källfelts gata 15
SE 426 71 Västra Frölunda Gothenburg
SE

Geographic Coverage

Data are collected within the following marine ecoregions: http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2401, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2374, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2379

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.973, 10.513], North East [65.734, 23.243]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1979-06-05 / 2019-12-17

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. Data are collected and analyzed according to the HELCOM COMBINE Manual - Part C Annex C7 Mesozooplankton (https://helcom.fi/media/publications/Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-mesozooplankton.pdf) or similar methods.

Additional Metadata