CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Castray Esplanade, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia.
Climate Change Cluster (C3), University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia.
Sci Data. 2018 Feb 20;5:180018. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2018.18.
Chlorophyll a is the most commonly used indicator of phytoplankton biomass in the marine environment. It is relatively simple and cost effective to measure when compared to phytoplankton abundance and is thus routinely included in many surveys. Here we collate 173, 333 records of chlorophyll a collected since 1965 from Australian waters gathered from researchers on regular coastal monitoring surveys and ocean voyages into a single repository. This dataset includes the chlorophyll a values as measured from samples analysed using spectrophotometry, fluorometry and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The Australian Chlorophyll a database is freely available through the Australian Ocean Data Network portal (https://portal.aodn.org.au/). These data can be used in isolation as an index of phytoplankton biomass or in combination with other data to provide insight into water quality, ecosystem state, and relationships with other trophic levels such as zooplankton or fish.
叶绿素 a 是海洋环境中最常用的浮游植物生物量指标。与浮游植物丰度相比，它的测量相对简单且具有成本效益，因此通常包含在许多调查中。在这里，我们汇集了自 1965 年以来澳大利亚水域的 173333 个叶绿素 a 记录，这些记录是从定期沿海监测调查和海洋航行的研究人员那里收集的，这些记录被汇集到一个单一的存储库中。该数据集包括使用分光光度法、荧光法和高效液相色谱法（HPLC）分析样本测量的叶绿素 a 值。澳大利亚叶绿素 a 数据库可通过澳大利亚海洋数据网络门户（https://portal.aodn.org.au/）免费获得。这些数据可以单独用作浮游植物生物量的指标，也可以与其他数据结合使用，以提供对水质、生态系统状态以及与其他营养级（如浮游动物或鱼类）关系的洞察。
