NMFS-COPEPOD: The Global Plankton Database, PETAO Sub-Collection

Zooplankton abundance data (species level), and phytoplankton abundance data (species level) collected by the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS, Ukraine). COPEPOD is an effort by NOAA - National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to provide investigators with an integrated data set of quality-controlled, globally distributed plankton abundance, biomass and composition data, along with co-sampled environmental data. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: OBIS-USA Dataset Code and GCMD ID: PETAO Data was published in May 2010 on the OBIS-USA web site and is available at http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa. Record Count 192,932, Taxa Count 957 The Pelagic Ecosystems of the Tropical Atlantic web page on the COPEPOD web site can be found at http://www.st.nmfs.gov/plankton/data/petao/index.html Principal Investigators for study: Sergey Piontkovski (lead investigator), E.P. Baldina, O.K. Biljeva, A.N. Kolesnikov, V.K. Moryakova, I. Yu Prusova, Alexandra A. Shmeleva, I. Yu. Tamoikin CURRENTNESS REFERENCE: ground condition