Zooplankton metabarcoding - Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study - March-2016/May-2017

These data were used in a study on the impacts of mesozooplankton diversity on the functioning of pelagic ecosystems in the Sargasso Sea, at the Bermuda Atlantic Times-series Study (BATS). There were analyzed, together with semi-quantitative morphological data from individual mesozooplankton images to study variations of taxonomic and functional diversity, and the potential impacts of these variations on the carbon export in the ecosystem. This global dataset was also used to investigate the potential quantitative property of metabarcoding. Knowing more about mesozooplankton diversity and its impact on ecosystem functioning would allow to better represent it in biogeochemical models.本数据集应用于一项针对马尾藻海（Sargasso Sea）百慕大大西洋时间序列研究（Bermuda Atlantic Times-series Study, BATS）海域中型浮游动物（mesozooplankton）多样性对浮游生态系统功能影响的研究。研究中，本数据集与单幅中型浮游动物图像的半定量形态学数据一并被分析，以探究分类学与功能多样性的变化，以及此类变化对生态系统碳输出的潜在影响。这一全球数据集还被用于探究元条形码测序（metabarcoding）的潜在定量特性。深入了解中型浮游动物多样性及其对生态系统功能的影响，有助于在生物地球化学模型中更精准地刻画该类群的生态作用。