Dataset for: 'Patterns in the Plankton – Spatial distribution and long-term variability of copepods on the Agulhas Bank'

This dataset contains environmental data (in situ temperature and chlorophyll a) and integrated biomass (mg C m-2) data for a number of copepod taxa, as well as total copepod biomass and abundance, on the Agulhas Bank, South Africa, as predicted by a Generalized Additive Model (GAM), during late austral spring (October-December) from 1988 to 2011. Mean environmental and copepod biomass parameters for each area and year are also provided. Relevant information on sampling and statistical analysis of spatial distributions has been extracted from the paper. Please see paper for full details and figures, including supplementary data; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2023.105265. Please see the Word document Huggett_et_al_2023_README.docx for a list of the data files and descriptions of the contents.