Zooplankton and Ichthyoplankton of the North Western Portuguese Coast in May 2002

Antonina dos Santos1, Alessandro Marraccini1, Henrique Niza1, Maria João Stehle1, Nuno Lourenço1, Rita Pires1, Henrique Queiroga2

1 Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P. (IPMA), ; 2 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, 

Corresponding author(s): Antonina dos Santos (antonina@ipma.pt)Alessandro Marraccini (alessandro.marraccini@ipma.pt)Henrique Niza (henrique.niza@ipma.pt)Maria João StehleNuno Lourenço (nuno.lourenco@ipma.pt)Rita Pires (rita.pires@ipma.pt)Henrique Queiroga (hqueiroga@bio.ua.pt)

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Resource Citation

Dos Santos, A.; Marraccini, A.; Niza, H.; Stehle, M. J.; Lourenço, N.; Pires, R.; Queiroga, H. (2017). Zooplankton of the North Western Portuguese Coast in May 2002.

Abstract

The objective of this data collection was to analyze the daily vertical migration of decapods larvae in the water column in the northwestern Portuguese coast and to assess its correlations with environmental parameters. In order to do this plankton samples were collected with Bongo nets, LHPR multi-sampler and Neuston net in an area between the north western Portuguese coast and the 10° W and between the 40° and 42° N and, additionally at a fixed location during a 67 hours period, every two hours. In the fixed sampling point a plankton trap was also deployed. The data set presented corresponds to the zooplankton analyzed in all the samples taken. This work is part of the ProRecruit project, which aimed to describe the spatial and temporal variability of the recruitment of coastal invertebrate species that show a planktonic larval phase in their lifecycle, and understand the impact of environmental variables which may control its supply to the coastal systems.

From the analysis of the results, it has been concluded that decapods larvae perform vertical daily migrations from the layers near the bottom to the neuston layer, being present in the superficial layers from 10PM to 02AM and that this behavior enhances their retention in the area together with the upwelling season. On the other hand, the cypris larval phase of Cirripedia was shown to perform vertical migrations and that have occurred in more abundance between 20 m and 35 m of depth.

Keywords: Marine, ANE, Portugal, Cirripedia, Copepoda, Crustacea, Decapoda, Euphausiacea, Mysida

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=prorecruit

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Subphylum: Crustacea
Subclass: Thecostraca, Copepoda
Order: Decapoda, Euphausiacea, Mysida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: North Western Portuguese Coast
Coordinates: 40°17'60''N and 40°53'60''N Latitude; 9°45'39.6''W and 8°42'57.6''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: May 15, 2002 - May 21, 2002

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Zooplankton and Ichthyoplankton of the North Western Portuguese Coast in May 2002
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/archive.do?r=prorecruit
Publication date of data: 2020-05-14
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-03-11
Hierarchy level: Dataset