Physical variables and abundance of zooplankton groups along the west coast of Baja California peninsula (July-September 2014)

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Physical oceanography variables and abundance of zooplankton community were analysed along the west coast of Baja California peninsula (July-September 2014). This study is related to 'The Blob', a mass of unusually warm ocean water registered off North America's west coast, setting sea temperature records and scrambling weather and ecosystems. This dataset contains the depth, temperature, and conductivity that were recorded from surface to a maximum depth using a SeaBird SB11 CTD equipped with a Seabird-43 Dissolved Oxygen sensor. Values of numerical abundance data analyzed from Northwest coast of Baja California peninsula to the South of Baja California. Zooplankton were collected using the Bongo nets with 505-μm of mesh opening from surface to 200 m depth. The Bongo system consists of two cylindrical-conical nets (2 m in length and 71 cm of mouth diameter) each one fitted with a flexible cod end and a General Oceanics flowmeter at the mouth for the determination of the volume of water filtered. Samples were fixed in 4% formalin buffered with a saturated solution of sodium borate. The zooplankton organisms were identified to functional taxonomic groups and its abundance was standardized using the formula (N = n / Vf); where N is the standardized number of organisms in 1 m3; n is the number of organisms in the sample and Vf, is the volume of water filtered in each trawl.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.957405
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2023.103940
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.957405
Provenance
Creator Sarmiento-Lezcano, Airam Nauzet ORCID logo; Aceves-Medina, Gerardo; Villalobos, Hector; Hernández-Trujillo, Sergio
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Instituto Politécnico Nacional https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003069 Crossref Funder ID SIP20200686
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Bundled Publication of Datasets; Collection
Format application/zip
Size 3 datasets
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-121.838W, 21.954S, -110.156E, 32.254N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-07-15T02:22:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-09-03T16:01:00Z