Zooplankton sampling in the coastal waters of south eastern Tasmania

Subsurface Currents Surface Currents Phytoplankton biomass and diversity

Zooplankton was counted and identified from three sites over the 5-year period. The net used (200 m Bongo net) was designed to catch meso-zooplankton with an integrated vertical tow through the water column. One net from each of the paired Bongo samples was analysed and the data expressed as numbers per m3. Copepods dominated the zooplankton, with other groups such as salps, krill, appendicularians, cladocerans, chaetognaths and meroplanktonic larvae being seasonally dominant.

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Swadling, K. M., Eriksen, R. S., Beard, J. M., & Crawford, C. (2017). Salmon sub-program: Marine currents, nutrients and plankton in the coastal waters of south…

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2009-11-01 – 2015-04-30
Date (creation)	2018-06-25
Status	completed
Update frequency	notPlanned
Metadata language	en
License	The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. Please contact Kerrie Swadling if you wish to use the data.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
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