Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Discovery expeditions

Occurrence
Latest version published by SCAR - AntOBIS on Mar 19, 2019 SCAR - AntOBIS
Publication date:
19 March 2019
Published by:
SCAR - AntOBIS
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CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba) occurence data from historic Discovery expeditions

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 667 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

A. Atkinson, V. Siegel , E. Pakhomov, P. Rothery (2004): Long-term decline in krill stock and increase in salps within the Southern Ocean. Nature 432: 100-103

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is SCAR - AntOBIS. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 89121440-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  SCAR - AntOBIS publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Discovery; Krill; Occurrence

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Contacts

Angus Atkinson
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Natural Environment Research Council; British Antarctic Survey
Anton Van de Putte
  • Metadata Provider
  • Project Manager
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF)
Bruno Danis
  • Point Of Contact
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Departement Educatie en Natuur; Afdeling Zoetwaterbiologie

Geographic Coverage

PS, Southern Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-73, -178], North East [-48, 177]

Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236217

Species Euphausia superba [Antarctic krill]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 1926-03-01

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers 89121440-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=discovery_krill