Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2016

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... basisOfRecord, bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, country, data, data_set_ID, data_set_name, dataset, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, materialSampleID, max, max_depth, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, min_depth, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2007

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_ID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Corpus Christi Bay Trawl

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) utilizes several sampling gears for fisheries-independent monitoring of finfish and shellfish communities. They include bag seines, trawls, gill nets and oyster dredges. TPWD uses multiple gears in a random sampling protocol, and they identify (to the lowest taxonomic unit possible) and count everything that they collect. This dataset contains bay trawl data collected for the Corpus Christi bay system in Texas from 1986 to 2008. Collected data also included spatial and temporal information describing the sample location and time, collection gear information, hydrological data (e.g. dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity), weather conditions, species caught,...

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Time series of zooplankton abundance of the South Florida Program / Sanctuaries Marine Biodiversity Observation Network programs

Sampling is carried out bi-monthly on the R/V Walton Smith (University of Miami) as part of the South Florida Program (NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory/ AOML) and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON). Samples are collected at three stations: Molasses Reef (25.051638 N, 280.22858 W), Looe Key (24.323028 N, 281.248068 W), and Western Sambo (24.286048 N, 281.428898 W). At each station, horizontal hauls (surface water) are performed with 64, 200, and 500 mm mesh size Bongo plankton nets. Each net tow is carried out for 5 min at 1 knot. The three size classes are split using a Folsom plankton splitter and preserved with 15 % formalin for morphological analysis. Morphological identification...

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Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 2001

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_ID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Dry Tortugas Reef Visual Census 2004

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, dataSetID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Dry Tortugas 2007

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP), about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, associatedreferences, associatedreferences, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, data_set_name, database, dataset, dataset, datasetName, date, dry, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomic_status, taxonomy, time, tortugas, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Dry Tortugas 2018

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP), about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, associatedreferences, associatedreferences, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, data_set_name, database, dataset, dataset, datasetName, date, dry, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomic_status, taxonomy, time, tortugas, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

Marine Bird Sighting Data, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) Chukchi Sea research cruise on the vessel Norseman II, 09 August 2015 - 03 September 2015

This dataset contains seabird survey and associated environmental conditions data collected in the Chukchi Sea during the 9 August - 3 September 2015 Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) research cruise. Seabirds were surveyed using line transect methods. Seabird observations were recorded directly into a laptop computer using software which logged the geographic coordinates of each sighting. Incidental sightings of marine mammal were also recorded. Supplementary environmental data are included for the beginning of each survey period. The dataset is two comma-separated values (csv) files. The file named dlog_2015_dwc_core.csv contains the count of observed marine birds and mammals by species, their...

Categories: Data; Tags: AMBON, Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observation Network, CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS, All tags... EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC, In Situ/Laboratory Instruments > Photon/Optical Detectors > BINOCULAR, MBON, Marine Biodiversity Observation Network, Norseman II, OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA, Survey, Vessel survey, biota, dataset, environment, marine bird, oceans, seabird, summer, Fewer tags

TPWD HARC Texas Coastal Fisheries Sabine Lake Gill Net

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) utilizes several sampling gears for fisheries-independent monitoring of finfish and shellfish communities. They include bag seines, trawls, gill nets and oyster dredges. TPWD uses multiple gears in a random sampling protocol, and they identify (to the lowest taxonomic unit possible) and count everything that they collect. This dataset contains gill net data collected for the Sabine Lake bay system in Texas from 1986 to 2008. Collected data also included spatial and temporal information describing the sample location and time, collection gear information, hydrological data (e.g. dissolved oxygen, water temperature, and salinity), weather conditions, species caught, and...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service

Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: Rapid Ecological Assessments of Fish Large-Area Stationary Point Count Surveys (SPC) at Coral Reef Sites across the Pacific Ocean from 2000 to 2007

The large-area stationary point count (SPC) method was used to conduct reef fish surveys in the Hawaiian and Mariana Archipelagos, American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas as part of NOAA's Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP). The SPC method catalogs the diversity (species richness), abundance (numeric density) and biomass (fish mass per unit area) of diurnally active reef fish assemblages in shallow-water (typically 10-15m, always < 30m) hard-bottom habitats. Stationary Point Counts (SPC) is one of several non-invasive underwater-survey methods to enumerate the diverse components of diurnally active shallow-water reef fish assemblages. At each REA survey sites, SPC fish surveys...

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Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database Asian Tiger Shrimp

The Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database (NAS) information resource is an established central repository for spatially referenced biogeographic accounts of introduced aquatic species. The NAS website provides scientific reports, online/real-time queries, spatial data sets, distribution maps, fact sheets, and general information.

Categories: Data; Tags: AIS, ANS, Asian Tiger Shrimp, GIS, Penaeus monodon, All tags... animals, biota, environment, introduced species, invasives, invertebrates, non-indigenous, non-native, nonindigenous, nonnative species, shrimp, Fewer tags

NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Science Division Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, Rapid Ecological Assessments of Fish Belt Transect Surveys (BLT) at Coral Reef Sites across the Pacific Ocean from 2000 to 2009

Belt transects (BLT) are a non-invasive underwater-survey method that enumerates the diverse components of diurnally active shallow-water reef fish assemblages. At each Rapid Ecological Assessment survey site, BLT fish surveys are conducted along 3 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines to quantify relatively small-bodied and abundant fishes. A pair of scuba diver-observers conducts parallel swims along the transect lines, recording size-class specific counts of all fishes encountered, to species-level where possible, within visually estimated but defined belt widths: 4 m wide for fishes > 20 cm TL (100 m2 area) on the initial swim-out, and 2 m wide for fishes < 20 cm TL (50 m2 area) on the subsequent swim back....

USGS Great Lakes Science Center Research Vessel Catch Information System Trawl

Data collected on various vessel operations on the Great Lakes and select connecting waterways. This vessel operations data set is part of and connected to a larger database of Great Lakes research that includes trawl and gillnet catch data, sample information, as well as effort, operation conditions, and location details. Multiple operations were conducted on all Great Lakes each year (1958-2016) beginning in early spring and ending in late fall. Each vessel operation was completed for a specific purpose, or target mission, which are enumerated in this data set. RVCAT stores data from the research vessels associated with the United States Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center and it's partners. The Trawl...

NOAA coral reef monitoring invertebrate data from sites across Micronesia from 2009-09-29 to 2015-09-25

Invertebrate census data were collected from sites around Micronesia as part of the ongoing Micronesia Challenge. Information on the program can be found at (www.micronesiareefmonitoring.com). Survey sites were selected around each island to be representative of natural environmental gradients, management, and major reef types. Thus, full site designs can be used to evaluate both island trends and site-specific trends. Benthic substrates were evaluated using a photo-quadrat technique. At each site, five 50-m transects were used to measure fishes, corals, and other benthic assemblages between 8–10 m on outer reefs, and at 3–5 m for inner lagoon reefs. Each 50-m transect was surveyed at a 5-m width by either one or...

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MARMAP Yankee Trawl 1990-2009

Abundance and biomass of fish species collected during the day from 1973 to 1980 off the coast of the southeastern United States (Cape Fear, NC to Cape Canaveral, FL). The Yankee trawl is a bottom trawl with #72 flat nylon thread, 1.3 cm stretched mesh nylon liner, 16.5-m footrope sweep, #500 New England otter trawl doors, and 11 aluminum floats (20.3 cm diameter) spaced equally along the headrope. The footrope is equipped with 9-cm (3.5-inch) rubber rollers (“cookies”). The net has a 16.5-m footrope, 11.9-m headrope and the following stretched mesh dimensions: 11.4 cm in the wings, 10.2 cm then to 8.9 cm in the body, 5.1 cm in the cod end, and 1.3 cm in the cod end liner. For thirty years, the Marine Resources...

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South TX Outer Continental Shelf and MI, AL, and FL Outer Continental Shelf benthic organism sampling 1974-1978

Benthic organisms data were collected using sediment sampler and net casts BELLOWS and other platforms in the Gulf of Mexico from 16 May 1974 to 20 February 1978. Data were collected and submitted by Dr. William Sackett of Texas University with support from the Outer Continental Shelf project. The data are from field sampling or surveys of bottom dwelling marine organisms in F132 format (described at http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/General/NODC-Archive/f132.htmland). The data provide information on species counts and species wet weight from samples collected by point sampling (grab or core) or by tow (dredge or trawl). Three operational kinds of data include: Epifauna, Infauna, and Meiofauna benthic organisms data that...

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National Resource Center for Cephalopods

CephBase is a dynamic html (dhtml) relational database-driven interactive web site that has been online since 1998. The prototype version of CephBase was developed at Dalhousie Univeristy in Halifax, Canada and was sponsored by the Sloan Foundation following the Workshop on Non-Fish Nekton in Boston, December, 1997. As of 12/2000, CephBase has all the taxa, authorities, and the year the taxa was described online for all of the 703 known living species of cephalopods listed by Sweeney and Roper (1998). CephBase provides taxonomic data, distribution, images, videos, predator and prey data, size, references and scientific contact information for all living species of cephalopods (octopus, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus)...

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Zooplankton biomass and species composition and abundance in the southeastern Caribbean Sea (Cariaco Basin, October 2001 – January 2017) collected by the CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program

The CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program (formerly known as CArbon Retention In A Colored Ocean) started on November 1995 (CAR-001) and ended on January 2017 (CAR-232). Monthly cruises were conducted to the CARIACO station (10.50° N, 64.67° W) onboard the R/V Hermano Ginés of the Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales de Venezuela. The program studied the relationship between surface primary production, physical forcing variables like the wind, and the settling flux of particulate carbon in the Cariaco Basin. This depression, located on the continental shelf of Venezuela, shows marked seasonal and interannual variation in hydrographic properties and primary production (carbon fixation rates by photosynthesis of planktonic...

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Marine Invertebrate voucher specimens at the Florida Biodiversity Collection, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

This dataset is generated from the records for specimens housed at the Fish and Wildlife Research institute (FWRI) in St. Petersburg, FL. As a division of the State of Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), FWRI houses voucher specimens supporting the research and monitoring efforts of FWC staff and other state agencies, as well as depositions from academic researchers and industrial projects. The samples are largely restricted geographically to the waters in and around Florida, USA. Sampling events primarily span from the 1950s through the present.

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