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RMT Trawl catch from the 1992/93 V6 KROCK voyage
Contact:
Watts, Dave
Availability:
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
This dataset contains results from the Aurora Australis Voyage 6 (KROCK) 1992-93, related to mesoscale distribution of krill and zooplankton communities in Prydz Bay in relation to physical and biological oceanographic parameters. more
The Aurora Australis Voyage 7 had five objectives:
The Aurora Australis Voyage 7 had five objectives:
- to define the distribution patterns and abundance of krill in the krill dominated continental shelf area of the Prydz Bay region;
- to define the krill population structure within this area and the distribution pattern of developmental stages, especially spawning females;
- to define the distribution patterns and composition of the other two principal communities, neritic and oceanic, which border the krill dominated community;
- to specifically determine the zooplankton composition within the main feeding area of Adélie Penguins from Béchervaise Island monitoring site, Mawson;
- to record and analyse various physical and biological processes, eg. Salinity, temperature, ice and phytoplankton, to determine how these parameters affect the observed distribution patterns.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Krill, Life history, Population dynamics, Zooplankton, PSE, Antarctica, Princess Elizabeth Land, Prydz Bay
Geographical coverage
PSE, Antarctica, Princess Elizabeth Land, Prydz Bay [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
15 January 1993 - 26 February 1993
Unknown
Unknown
Parameter
Presence of biota
Contributors
Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), more, data creator, data manager
Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2009-11-23
Information last updated: 2015-07-28