Dataset: oithona_abund

Name: Abundance data of Oithona species (Copepoda) from the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Persian Gulf from 21 cruises or shore stations from 1968-1983 (Nishida-Oithona project)
Published: 2011-07-22
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

Spatial Extent: N:57.032 E:45.5 S:-69.5 W:-83.8

Project:

Nishida-Pacific-Oithona (Nishida-Oithona)

Program:

Census of Marine Life (CoML)

Principal Investigator:

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

Scientist:

Dr Shuhei Nishida

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

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

Version:

20110722

Version Date:

2011-07-22

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Abundance data of Oithona species (Copepoda) from the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Persian Gulf from 21 cruises or shore stations from 1968-1983 (Nishida-Oithona project)

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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

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

Data Files

File
oithona_abund.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 187.46 KB) MD5:4163faa834f9c583dac259204d324dbc Primary data file for dataset ID 2489

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Funding Sources

None available yet

Deployments

Deployment	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Colombo	1977-01-30	colombo	Dr Shuhei Nishida (Principal Investigator)	data info
Gulf_of_Thailand	1979-01-22	shoreside thailand		data info
Honiara	1979-09-15	shoreside honiara		data info
Kabira_Bay	1975-06-09	shoreside kabira bay		data info
KH67-5		R/V Hakuho Maru	Dr Shuhei Nishida (Chief Scientist)	data info
KH68-4	1968-11-23	R/V Hakuho Maru		data info
KH69-4	1969-08-22	R/V Hakuho Maru		data info
KH71-5	1971-11-26	R/V Hakuho Maru		data info
KH74-2	1974-05-08	R/V Hakuho Maru		data info
KH75-4	1975-06-29	R/V Hakuho Maru		data info
KH76-1	1976-02-28	R/V Hakuho Maru		data info
KH76-5	1976-12-25	R/V Hakuho Maru		data info
MARU_3	1977-12-21	R/V Kaiyo-Maru No 3		data info
Penang	1977-02-20	shoreside penang		data info
Persian_Gulf	1978-06-18	shoreside persian gulf		data info
South_Yemen	1979-12-17	shoreside south yemen		data info
Surabaya	1977-01-04	shoreside surabaya		data info
Sydney	1983-12-11	shoreside sydney		data info
Tokyo_Bay	1975-04-22	shoreside tokyo bay		data info

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

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

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

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