Description
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Stockholm University, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Gothenburg University and Umeå University.
Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Data should be sampled and analyzed according to the HELCOM Guidelines for monitoring of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass (https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HELCOM-Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vaxtplankton.html.
"In short, analysis of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass is carried out for the following purposes • to describe temporal trends in phytoplankton species composition, phytoplankton abundance, biomass as well as the intensity and occurrence of blooms • to describe the spatial distribution of phytoplankton species • to identify key phytoplankton 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 political and social requirements such as indicators 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)” (https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HELCOM-Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf)
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 13,818 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.
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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Stockholm University, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Gothenburg University, Umeå University, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2022). SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Phytoplankton in Sweden since 1983.
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: 25ddf425-5004-4a62-9cd1-cc7806f081a8. The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Samling event; Phytoplankton; Samplingevent
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
Geographic Coverage
Data are collected within the following marine ecoregions: http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2401, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2374, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2379
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [54.97, 10.513], North East [65.897, 24.039] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1983-02-09 / 2021-12-21 |
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Sampling Methods
Data should be sampled and analyzed according to the HELCOM Guidelines for monitoring of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass (https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HELCOM-Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur.
| Study Extent | Monitoring program |
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Method step description:
- Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vaxtplankton.html
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 25ddf425-5004-4a62-9cd1-cc7806f081a8 |
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| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=smhi-phytoplankton-nat |