Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Discovery expeditions

Angus Atkinson1, Anton Van de Putte2, Bruno Danis3

1 Natural Environment Research Council; British Antarctic Survey, ; 2 Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF), ; 3 Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Departement Educatie en Natuur; Afdeling Zoetwaterbiologie, 

Corresponding author(s): Angus Atkinson (aat@bas.ac.uk), Anton Van de Putte (antonarctica@gmail.com)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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

Keywords: Discovery, Krill, Occurrence

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=discovery_krill

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236217
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Euphausia superba [Antarctic krill]

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: PS, Southern Ocean
Coordinates: 73°0'0''S and 48°0'0''S Latitude; 178°0'0''W and 177°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: March 1, 1926

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Antarctic Krill occurrence data from Discovery expeditions
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/archive.do?r=discovery_krill
Publication date of data: 2019-03-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Online dataset
Character encoding: US-ASCII
Format name: Plain Text
Distribution: http://www.iobis.org/mapper/?dataset=528

Dataset description
Object name: Metadata
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: XML
Distribution: http://www.vliz.be/imis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=1027

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2013-08-07
Hierarchy level: Dataset