TY - JOUR
T1 - A database of marine phytoplankton abundance, biomass and species composition in Australian waters
AU - Plankton Databases
AU - Davies, Claire H.
AU - Coughlan, Alex
AU - Hallegraeff, Gustaaf
AU - Ajani, Penelope
AU - Armbrecht, Linda
AU - Atkins, Natalia
AU - Bonham, Prudence
AU - Brett, Steve
AU - Brinkman, Richard
AU - Burford, Michele
AU - Clementson, Lesley
AU - Coad, Peter
AU - Coman, Frank
AU - Davies, Diana
AU - Dela-Cruz, Jocelyn
AU - Devlin, Michelle
AU - Edgar, Steven
AU - Eriksen, Ruth
AU - Furnas, Miles
AU - Hassler, Christel
AU - Hill, David
AU - Holmes, Michael
AU - Ingleton, Tim
AU - Jameson, Ian
AU - Leterme, Sophie C.
AU - Lønborg, Christian
AU - McLaughlin, James
AU - McEnnulty, Felicity
AU - McKinnon, A. David
AU - Miller, Margaret
AU - Murray, Shauna
AU - Nayar, Sasi
AU - Patten, Renee
AU - Pausina, Sarah A.
AU - Pritchard, Tim
AU - Proctor, Roger
AU - Purcell-Meyerink, Diane
AU - Raes, Eric
AU - Rissik, David
AU - Ruszczyk, Jason
AU - Slotwinski, Anita
AU - Swadling, Kerrie M.
AU - Tattersall, Katherine
AU - Thompson, Peter
AU - Thomson, Paul
AU - Tonks, Mark
AU - Trull, Thomas W.
AU - Uribe-Palomino, Julian
AU - Waite, Anya M.
AU - Yauwenas, Rouna
AU - Zammit, Anthony
AU - Richardson, Anthony J.
PY - 2016/6/21
Y1 - 2016/6/21
N2 - 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 3,621,847 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://portal.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.
AB - 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 3,621,847 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://portal.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.
KW - phytoplankton
KW - datasets
KW - Australian waters
KW - Australian Ocean Data Network
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84975806498&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/sdata.2016.43
DO - 10.1038/sdata.2016.43
M3 - Article
C2 - 27328409
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 3
JO - Scientific Data - Nature
JF - Scientific Data - Nature
IS - 1
M1 - 160043
ER -
