DFO Pacific IOS zooplankton database - Line P

This OBIS resource contains a small subset of species distribution records extracted from the IOS database. The 'Line P' dataset contains records of plankton collected at Ocean Station Papa (P26 data) in the Pacific Ocean between 1965 to 1980.

Data from Ocean Station P, 50°N and 145°W, were collected by various researchers and analyzed to many different levels of taxonomic resolution. Data from 1956 to 1965 was analyzed as biomass, wet weight per cubic metre only. Portion of samples from 1964 to 1967 were analyzed for five species groups and samples from 1968 to 1980 had species identification plus stages, counts and lengths for select taxonomic groups and/or species with the rest of the sample being classified under “remainder” (and assigned the scientific name Animalia).