Dataset specification
- Title: BioBasis Zackenberg - Lakes - Zooplankton
- Description: Data on phytoplankton numbers and biovolume in the two monitoring lakes. For further details, please refer to the newest BioBasis manual available at the website. Lakes:Lakes BioBasis Zackenberg:The BioBasis programme monitors the dynamics of organisms and biological processes in the terrestrial and limnic ecosystems at Zackenberg and Nuuk. The BioBasis programme plays a central role in the development and implementation of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) http://www.caff.is/monitoring across the Arctic.
- DOI: 10.17897/VWPC-B466 - https://doi.org/10.17897/VWPC-B466
- Location/site: Monitoring lakes - -20.57, 74.47 (lon-lat wgs84)
- Date span of the dataset: 2000-08-17 - 2020-08-29
Data originator, license and how to download the dataset
The dataset is a product of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring program (GEM): https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.507580.f. It is free and open data, licensed with terms of use under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ When downloading you will automatically get a terms of use document, describing how to cite the data and other important information.
Download the dataset via this link (registration needed): http://data.g-e-m.dk/log-in/data-tables?doi=10.17897/VWPC-B466
Variables measured / columns in dataset
ID | Name | Unit | Data Type | Description |
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http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/VWPC-B466&column=Date | Date | Date | Date | Date of census |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/VWPC-B466&column=Lake | Lake | Text | Text | Name of lake sampled |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/VWPC-B466&column=Taxon | Taxon | Text | Text | Name of taxon |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/VWPC-B466&column=Stage | Stage | Text | Text | Life stage og sex of taxon |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/VWPC-B466&column=NumberPerLiter | NumberPerLiter | Number | Number | Number of individuals per mL. "-1" indicates presence but too small amounts to be quantified. |
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/VWPC-B466&column=Remarks | Remarks | Text | Text | Remarks |