SHARK - Phyto- and Microzooplankton Data Collected by Imaging FlowCytobots (IFCB) in Swedish and Adjacent Waters

Sampling event
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Description

Data is stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, National Oceanographic Data Centre.Monitoring is performed by Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The monitoring is financed by monitoring projects.In short, analysis of phyto- and microzooplankton species composition, abundance and biomass is carried out for the following purposes.To describe temporal trends as well as the intensity and occurrence of blooms.To describe the spatial distribution of species.To identify key species (e.g. dominating, harmful, potential non-indigenous and/or invasive species, as well as indicator species).To provide basic data for complex ecosystem analyses, food web studies, modelling as well as for requirements in the frame of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive of the European Union (MSFD European Union 2008) and the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD European Union 2000).In this dataset you will find data from Tangesund oceanographic platform, Swedish Skagerrak coast year 2016 (IFCB110), and from R/V Svea (https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C17/current/77SE/) from year 2022 onwards (IFCB134). Other sampling platforms are possible.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 17,731 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
17731
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
1111062
Occurrence 
121103

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (2024). SHARK - Phyto- and Microzooplankton Data Collected by Imaging FlowCytobots (IFCB) in Swedish and Adjacent Waters

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a28ecb21-884c-4cc1-8e95-f0ec703609bd.  The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Plankton

Contacts

SHARK SMHI
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Data manager
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
SE

Geographic Coverage

N/A

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.833, 5.804], North East [65.166, 23.821]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Chromista, Plantae, Protozoa, Bacteria
Phylum Cyanobacteria, Myzozoa, Chlorophyta, Cercozoa, Cryptophyta, Euglenozoa, Bacillariophyta, Ochrophyta, Ciliophora
Class Dinophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Raphidophyceae, Cryptophyceae, Pyramimonadophyceae, Trebouxiophyceae, Oligotrichea, Dictyochophyceae, Euglenophyceae, Cyanophyceae, Chlorophyceae, Litostomatea, Thecofilosea, Ulvophyceae, Bacillariophyceae
Order Gonyaulacales, Ulotrichales, Thalassionematales, Gymnodiniales, Lithodesmiales, Eutreptiales, Coscinodiscales, Fragilariales, Dictyochales, Chaetocerotanae incertae sedis, Thalassiosirales, Cyclotrichiida, Pennales, Thoracosphaerales, Ebriales, Triceratiales, Choreotrichida, Oligotrichida, Chattonellales, Centrales, Dinophysales, Prorocentrales, Chromulinales, Rhizosoleniales, Chlorellales, Bacillariales, Chroococcales, Paraliales, Pyramimonadales, Tovelliales, Leptocylindrales, Pedinellales, Peridiniales, Hemiaulales, Amphidiniales, Cryptomonadales, Nostocales, Sphaeropleales, Licmophorales
Family Paraliaceae, Gymnodiniaceae, Fragilariaceae, Microcystaceae, Stephanodiscaceae, Tontoniidae, Dictyochaceae, Aphanizomenonaceae, Eutreptiaceae, Thalassiosiraceae, Thalassionemataceae, Dinophysaceae, Coscinodiscaceae, Triceratiaceae, Chattonellaceae, Actinomonadaceae, Metacylididae, Cladopyxidaceae, Protoperidiniaceae, Strombidiidae, Dinobryaceae, Chaetocerotaceae, Skeletonemaceae, Thoracosphaeraceae, Lithodesmiaceae, Leptocylindraceae, Pyramimonadaceae, Pyrocystaceae, Selenastraceae, Binucleariaceae, Ebriaceae, Polykrikaceae, Oxytoxaceae, Nodulariaceae, Oocystaceae, Lingulodiniaceae, Ceratiaceae, Prorocentraceae, Rhizosoleniaceae, Peridiniaceae, Licmophoraceae, Mesodiniidae, Gyrodiniaceae, Gonyaulacaceae, Hemiaulaceae, Kareniaceae, Warnowiaceae, Tovelliaceae, Scenedesmaceae, Heterocapsaceae, Amphidiniaceae, Bacillariaceae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-08-10 / 2024-12-15

Sampling Methods

Sampling is performed either using shipboard flow through systems (i.e. FerryBox) where the Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) is connected as an addon, or at specific locations with the IFCB is submerged in-situ. Other deployment methods are possible. The IFCB uses flow cytometry technology and high-resolution images to detects particles in a water sample. Shapes in images are identified to best possible taxonomical levels using AI-assisted image analysis software. Volumes are estimated from the organism’s two-dimensional boundary.

Study Extent Data are collected within the following marine ecoregions: http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2401, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2374, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2379, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2350

Method step description:

  1. The analysis follows the methods provided - Machine learning: Sosik, H. M. and Olson, R. J. (2007), Automated taxonomic classification of phytoplankton sampled with imaging-in-flow cytometry. Limnol. Oceanogr: Methods 5, 204–216. http://github.com/hsosik/ifcb-analysis - Quality control: Hayashi, K., Walton, J., Lie, A., Smith, J. and Kudela M. Using particle size distribution (PSD) to automate imaging flow cytobot (IFCB) data quality in coastal California, USA. In prep. http://github.com/kudelalab/PSD - Data processing: Anders Torstensson (2024). I 'R' FlowCytobot (iRfcb): Tools for Analyzing and Processing Data from the IFCB. R package version 0.3.10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12533225. http://github.com/EuropeanIFCBGroup/iRfcb

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