Description
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 (25.051 N, 80.38 W), Looe Key (24.538 N, 81.413 W), and Western Sambo (24.478 N, 81.717 W). At each station, oblique hauls (surface water) are performed with 64, 200, and 500 μm mesh size Bongo plankton nets. Each net tow is carried out for 2 to 5 minutes at 1-2 knots. The three size classes are split using a Folsom plankton splitter and preserved with 15% formalin for morphological analysis. Morphological identification follows the protocols of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) (Roger et al. 2000) targeting a minimum count of 200 animals per sample. For the 64 and 200 μm net tows, a 5–10 mL aliquot is subsampled after resuspension of 300 ml of the original zooplankton sample using a Stempel pipette. Zooplankton are then identified and counted using a microscope. Zooplankton are identified to the lowest taxonomic level possible. Zooplankton abundances (density; individuals m-3) are calculated by dividing animal counts by the product of net mouth area, tow speed, and tow duration (i.e., volume of water filtered by the net).
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 190 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Muller-Karger F, Kelble C, Montes E, Djurhuus A, Rojas-Marquez J, Lopez-Figueroa N, Di Geronimo S, Rueda-Roa D, Murray T (2025). Time series of zooplankton abundance in the Florida Keys, collected by the South Florida Program (NOAA/AOML) and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON). Version 1.11. NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=sfmbon_zooplankton&v=1.11
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ec0d2fe8-21b1-4ab1-8b91-67873e8ca912. NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
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Geographic Coverage
Florida Keys, Molasses Reef, Looe Key, Western Sambo, South Florida, US
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [24.476, -81.715], North East [25.006, -80.379] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Chromista, Animalia |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda, Annelida, Brachiopoda, Chordata, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Radiozoa, Chaetognatha, Foraminifera, Ciliophora, Bryozoa, Cnidaria |
| Class | Hydrozoa, Ostracoda, Polychaeta, Bivalvia, Spirotrichea, Leptocardii, Gastropoda, Thecostraca, Appendicularia, Gymnolaemata, Copepoda, Thaliacea, Scyphozoa, Cephalopoda, Branchiopoda, Ophiuroidea, Malacostraca, Teleostei |
| Order | Amphipoda, Calanoida, Decapoda, Doliolida, Harpacticoida, Cheilostomatida, Copelata, Onychopoda, Salpida, Euphausiacea, Ctenopoda, Cumacea, Myopsida, Mysida, Stomatopoda, Balanomorpha, Monstrilloida, Siphonostomatoida, Tintinnida, Cladocera, Siphonophorae, Pteropoda, Cyclopoida, Clupeiformes, Isopoda |
| Family | Candaciidae, Phaennidae, Loliginidae, Podonidae, Penaeidae, Branchiostomatidae, Ectinosomatidae, Oikopleuridae, Peltidiidae, Lubbockiidae, Clausocalanidae, Temoridae, Sergestidae, Calanidae, Spinocalanidae, Heterorhabdidae, Oithonidae, Euchaetidae, Caligidae, Pontellidae, Electridae, Centropagidae, Clausidiidae, Harpacticidae, Aetideidae, Acartiidae, Paracalanidae, Corycaeidae, Scolecitrichidae, Fritillariidae, Eucalanidae, Sididae, Balanidae, Oncaeidae, Tachidiidae, Fosshageniidae, Miraciidae, Rhincalanidae, Sapphirinidae, Lucicutiidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Monstrillidae, Salpidae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2015-04-14 / 2020-12-09 |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvest by OBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | ec0d2fe8-21b1-4ab1-8b91-67873e8ca912 |
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| https://obis.org/dataset/afef5da2-614b-4208-aee6-c2413ed5ab76 | |
| https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=sfmbon_zooplankton |