Document of dataset 6021

Dataset record

Type

Dataset

title in English

Phytoplankton composition, biomass and abundance in Estonian territorial waters 1993-2016

Abstract in English

The dataset contains abundance and biomass for different taxonomical units of phytoplankton (from phylum to species, according to identification accuracy) sampled from Estonian open and coastal waters in the Baltic Sea. Samples are collected with Ferrybox method (sampling depth appr. 5m) or by pooling samples from discrete depths (1, 5 and 10m) in national monitoring stations. Phytoplankton identification and enumeration was carried out using microscopy, biomass calculations were done using volume formulas provided by HELCOM-PEG (phytoplankton expert group) and published in http://www.ices.dk/marine-data/data-portals/Pages/DOME.aspx (PEG BIOVOLUME).

License

https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.html

bibliographicCitation

Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu and Marine Systems Institute, Tallinn University of Technology (2019): Phytoplankton composition, biomass and abundance in Estonian territorial waters 1993-2016