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dc.contributor.authorLipsewers, T.
dc.contributor.authorSpilling, K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-13T12:49:40Z
dc.date.available2019-02-13T12:49:40Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.citationLipsewers, T. and Spilling, K. (2018) Microzooplankton, the missing link in Finnish plankton monitoring programs. Boreal Environment Research, 23, pp.127–137. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-402en_US
dc.identifier.isbn1797-2469 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11329/853
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-402
dc.description.abstractFinnish plankton monitoring is divided into phytoplankton and mesozooplankton sampling. Using the phytoplankton protocol, we included all organisms identified in samples from the Baltic Sea during spring (n = 125). The plankton was converted to carbon, and including all microscopy derived carbon (MDC), increased the carbon content by 22%, on average, compared with only phytoplankton. Particulate organic carbon (POC) and chlorophyll a (Chl a) were also measured, and the general relationship between MDC and POC was: slope = 1.04, intercept = 240 µg POC l–1, R2 = 0.66; for phytoplankton to Chl a: 0.037g Chl a (g MDC)–1, R2 = 0.68. Our results demonstrate that a variable fraction of the plankton biomass is not recorded in the monitoring programs. Most of the unaccounted biomass was ciliates, which constituted 14.1% ± 3.7% (mean ± maximum error) of the plankton biomass. Based on the results we recommend including microzooplankton in the existing phytoplankton monitoring program.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.otherSampling protocolsen_US
dc.titleMicrozooplankton, the missing link in Finnish plankton monitoring programs.en_US
dc.typeJournal Contributionen_US
dc.format.pagerangepp.127–137en_US
dc.subject.parameterDisciplineParameter Discipline::Biological oceanography::Phytoplanktonen_US
dc.subject.parameterDisciplineParameter Discipline::Biological oceanography::Zooplanktonen_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.titleBoreal Environment Researchen_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume23en_US
dc.description.eovPhytoplankton biomass and diversityen_US
dc.description.eovZooplankton biomass and diversityen_US
dc.description.bptypeGuideen_US
obps.contact.contactemailkristian.spilling@environment.fi
obps.resourceurl.publisherhttp://www.borenv.net/BER/pdfs/ber23/ber23-127-137.pdfen_US


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