Mesozooplancton abundance from surface to bathypelagic zone in during spring in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean in 2018 (Bathypelagic)

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This dataset contains values mesozooplankton abundance groups collected during the Bathypelagic cruise from 24th of May to the 23rd of June 2018, from Northwest Africa (20° N, 20° W) to the South of Iceland. Mesozooplankton were sampled using the Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS-1 m2) zooplankton net with a 0.2 mm mesh size and with several nets for collecting samples from 8 different depth layers (0-100; 100-200; 200-400; 400-700; 700-1000; 1000-1300; 1300-1600; 1600-1900). Collected specimens MOCNESS-1 samples were preserved in 5% buffered formalin, and specimens were sorted out later. All individuals were counted with the exception of Protozoa due to the mesh size used was not suitable to retrieve a representative sample (Boltovskoy, 1981). Most abundant mesozooplankton groups were studied and identified until dominant groups. All data were standardized to number of individuals (ind·m-3) by layer.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.991561
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1641055
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.991561
Provenance
Creator Fernández de Puelles, María Luz; Sarmiento-Lezcano, Airam Nauzet ORCID logo; Hernández-León, Santiago ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 817578 https://doi.org/10.3030/817578 Tropical and South Atlantic climate-based marine ecosystem predictions for sustainable management; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 817806 https://doi.org/10.3030/817806 Sustainable management of mesopelagic resources; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 Crossref Funder ID CTM2016-78853-R Biomass and Active Flux in the Bathypelagic Zone; Xunta de Galicia https://doi.org/10.13039/501100010801 Crossref Funder ID IN606B-2024/018 Interacciones tróficas y procesos ecosistémicos en peces mesopelágicos (TROF-MP)
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 41912 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (19.718W, 20.804S, 25.078E, 55.387N); North Atlantic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-05-28T11:45:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-20T17:34:00Z