2004 Strategic Environmental Assessment SEA5 Technical Report - Plankton (North Sea)
This report is a contribution to the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA5) conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry (now Department of Energy and Climate Change). This report provides data on the plankton community in the SEA 5 of the North Sea. Data for this report were provided by the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, as well as sourced from outside organisations. The SEA 5 area is influenced by the Shelf Edge Current, which breaks off its main route in the form of the Fair Isle Current, the Dooley Current and the East Shetland Inflow. Oceanic water flows into the North Sea in this area, causing periodic incursions of associated planktonic organisms. The report addresses: phytoplankton and zooplankton community composition; Phytoplankton blooms; Abundance of the copepod Calanus; Mero-, pico- and megaplankton; Phytodetritus and vertical fluxes.
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English
Biota
Environment
Oceans
Environment
Oceans
SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary:
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0:
SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages:
Species distribution
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publication: 2004-01-01
2004-01-01
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2004-01-01
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Data Quality
This report was prepared by scientists from the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) as part of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change's Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment programme. The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey provides a unique long-term dataset of plankton abundance in the North Atlantic and North Sea, using 'ships of opportunity' to tow the CPR on regular routes, sampling at a depth of approximately 10m (methodology described in full in Warner and Hays 1994). Each sample represents 18km of tow and approximately 3m3 of filtered seawater. The survey records over 400 taxa of plankton, composed of phytoplankton (plants) and zooplankton (animals) entities, many of which are recorded to species level. It is the only biological survey that can monitor long term changes over broad areas, such as the North Atlantic. The survey began in the North Sea in 1931, with computerised records from 1948. For this study, an area encompassing SEA 5 was chosen, containing over 11000 samples from 1960 to 2002.
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British Geological Survey (BGS)
Mary Mowat
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2011-08-30