The Australian Phytoplankton Database (1844 - ongoing) - abundance and biovolume

There have been many individual phytoplankton datasets collected across Australia since the mid 1900s, but most are unavailable to the research community. We have searched archives, contacted researchers, and scanned the primary and grey literature to collate over 3,600,000 records of marine phytoplankton species from Australian waters from 1844 to the present. Many of these are small datasets collected for local questions, but combined they provide over 170 years of data on phytoplankton communities in Australian waters. Units and taxonomy have been standardised, obviously erroneous data removed, and all metadata included. We have lodged this dataset with the Australian Ocean Data Network (http://imos.aodn.org.au/), allowing public access. The Australian Phytoplankton Database will be invaluable for global change studies, as it allows analysis of ecological indicators of climate change and eutrophication (e.g., changes in distribution; diatom:dinoflagellate ratios). In addition, the standardised conversion of abundance records to biomass provides modellers with quantifiable data to initialise and validate ecosystem models of lower marine trophic levels. There is a static snapshot of the database as at March 2016 (http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/69/56454b2ba2f79), and this has been documented in a Scientific Data Publication. This metadata record provides access to the dynamic (most recent) version of the database and was based on the following CSIRO metadata record: https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search?uuid=1836cea6-317d-1608-e053-08114f8c81ba.

自20世纪中期以来，澳大利亚各地已收集了多套独立的浮游植物数据集，但其中大多数未向科研界开放。
我们通过检索档案库、联系研究人员、梳理一手文献与灰色文献，整合了1844年至今澳大利亚海域内超过360万条海洋浮游植物物种记录。其中多数数据集为针对本地研究问题收集的小型数据集，整合后即可提供覆盖170余年的澳大利亚海域浮游植物群落数据。我们已统一数据单位与分类体系，剔除明显有误的数据，并补充了全部元数据。
本数据集已存档于澳大利亚海洋数据网络（Australian Ocean Data Network，http://imos.aodn.org.au/），面向公众开放访问。澳大利亚浮游植物数据库（Australian Phytoplankton Database）将对全球变化研究具有重要价值，因其可用于分析气候变化与富营养化的生态指标（例如物种分布范围变化；硅藻（diatom）与甲藻（dinoflagellate）的比值）。
此外，将丰度记录标准化转换为生物量数据，可为建模人员提供可量化的数据集，用于初始化并验证海洋低营养级的生态系统模型。
该数据库截至2016年3月存在一份静态快照版本（http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/69/56454b2ba2f79），相关内容已发表于《科学数据》（Scientific Data）的学术出版物中。本元数据记录提供了该数据库的动态（最新）版本访问入口，其基于以下CSIRO元数据记录构建：https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/search?uuid=1836cea6-317d-1608-e053-08114f8c81ba。