Epipelagic mesozooplankton distribution and abundance in Southern Ocean Atlantic sector and the North Atlantic and Arctic 1996-2013

Polar biodiversity data: From a national marine platform to a global data portal

“…As an example of how this biological data publishing pipeline has been adopted, we provide the BAS Bongo Database, which contains mesozooplankton biodiversity information from Bongo and mini-Bongo nets collected by the BAS in polar regions between 1996 and 2013. The BAS Bongo dataset 16 is publicly available from the UK PDC, GBIF, 17 and OBIS 18 data portals and described in detail by Ward et al. (see the related paper in this issue of Patterns ).…”

“…Management of biological data at UK PDC is explained below using the example of the BAS Bongo net dataset. 16 For details of net sampling and analytical methodologies we would refer readers to the article by Ward et al. 19 …”

“…The map allows verification of the deployment data and shows data distribution, as seen in the interface example available from the BAS Bongo dataset metadata record. 16 An EML metadata record . The biodiversity data together with the marine expedition metadata are converted into the Darwin Core format 26 and then published using the integrated Publishing Toolkit.…”

“…The map allows verification of the deployment data and shows data distribution, as seen in the interface example available from the BAS Bongo dataset metadata record. 16 …”

A database of zooplankton abundance in the Atlantic sectors of the Southern and sub-Arctic Oceans

“…Ten Hoopen et al (2022, see the related paper 5 in this issue of Patterns), describe the biological data publishing pipeline through which datasets describing plankton samples collected by Bongo nets in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean and a single expedition to the sub-Arctic between 1996 and 2013 have been made globally accessible. 6 In this paper we describe the methodologies used to collect and analyze these plankton samples, the constraints and assumptions in our analyses, and the studies that have so far resulted from these data that consider the ecology of mesozooplankton in the Southern Ocean.…”