VLIZ Intro Archive Manual Policy Register Contact FAQ

Direct Link

File: 'EMODnet-Biology-phytoplankton-alpha-diversity.zip'

IMIS metadata and citations

Phytoplankton alpha diversity in the greater Baltic Sea area [dasid=8221] show more

File properties

FilenameEMODnet-Biology-phytoplankton-alpha-diversity.zip
Direct linkhttps://mda.vliz.be/directlink.php?fid=VLIZ_00000727_642d326e653e6196734923
DatatypeBiotic data
MIMEtypeapplication/x-zip-compressed
AuthorsEMODnet-Biology
DataproviderEMODnet-Biology
Email Dataproviderbio@emodnet.eu
Conditions of useCC-BY
Creationdate2023-03-20
SubmitterFernandez Salvador
Submit date2023-04-05 08:33:50
Archived byFernandez Salvador
Archive date2023-04-05 08:36:53
PathEMODnet - Public/Data products/2023/
Start year2000
End year2021
Summary
DescriptionBiodiversity loss due to human activities is an increasing threat for marine ecosystems and the services we obtain from them. As biodiversity is directly related to the resilience of ecosystems to temporary disturbance, biodiversity monitoring is a vital task for areas subjected to conservation goals. Environmental factors often control the community composition and biodiversity of marine microplankton, such as the pronounced salinity gradient in the Baltic Sea (e.g. Hu et al. 2016). Time series data of biodiversity can therefore provide an indication of changes in community composition due to environmental stressors, such as climate change or eutrophication.

As many biodiversity estimates are biased by sampling effort, caution must be taken when interpreting alpha diversity from microscopy phytoplankton counts. By rarefaction and evenness estimation, these biases can be reduced, but not ignored.
Changes

Metadata

Content
Biotic composition phytoplankton
Data origin
Materials and Methods
Sampling device
Sampling frequency
Matrix
Measurements
Parameter group
Parameter
Temporal scope
First date 2000-01-15
Last date 2021-12-15
Geographic scope
Sea area(s) Baltic Sea (MRGID2401)
Coordinate reference WGS84 (epsg: 4326)
Location
Additional information
Label
Link file