CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia.
Project Manta, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia.
Sci Data. 2020 Sep 8;7(1):297. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-00625-9.
Zooplankton biomass data have been collected in Australian waters since the 1930s, yet most datasets have been unavailable to the research community. We have searched archives, scanned the primary and grey literature, and contacted researchers, to collate 49187 records of marine zooplankton biomass from waters around Australia (0-60°S, 110-160°E). Many of these datasets are relatively small, but when combined, they provide >85 years of zooplankton biomass data for Australian waters from 1932 to the present. Data have been standardised and all available metadata included. We have lodged this dataset with the Australian Ocean Data Network, allowing full public access. The Australian Zooplankton Biomass Database will be valuable for global change studies, research assessing trophic linkages, and for initialising and assessing biogeochemical and ecosystem models of lower trophic levels.
自 20 世纪 30 年代以来，澳大利亚水域的浮游动物生物量数据一直在收集，但大多数数据集都无法提供给研究界。我们已经搜索了档案、扫描了主要和灰色文献，并联系了研究人员，整理了来自澳大利亚周围水域（0-60°S，110-160°E）的海洋浮游动物生物量的 49187 个记录。这些数据集很多都比较小，但组合起来，就提供了 1932 年至今超过 85 年的澳大利亚水域浮游动物生物量数据。数据已经标准化，并包含了所有可用的元数据。我们已经将这个数据集提交给了澳大利亚海洋数据网络，允许公众完全访问。澳大利亚浮游动物生物量数据库将对全球变化研究、评估营养联系的研究以及初始化和评估较低营养级别的生物地球化学和生态系统模型非常有价值。
