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16 Oct 2014
Research article |
| 16 Oct 2014
Springtime zooplankton size structure over the continental shelf of the Bay of Biscay
P. Vandromme
IFREMER, Centre Bretagne, Département Dynamique de l'Environnement Côtier, B.P. 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
GEOMAR, Helmholtz-Center for Ocean Science, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
E. Nogueira
Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Gijón 33212, Spain
IFREMER, Centre Bretagne, Unit. Sciences et Techniques Halieutiques, B.P. 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
Á. Lopez-Urrutia
Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Gijón 33212, Spain
G. González-Nuevo González
Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Vigo 36200, Spain
M. Sourisseau
IFREMER, Centre Bretagne, Département Dynamique de l'Environnement Côtier, B.P. 70, 29280 Plouzané, France
P. Petitgas
IFREMER, Centre Nantes, Département Écologie et Modèles pour l'Halieutique, rue de l'Île d'Yeu, 44300 Nantes, France
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We present two space- and time-resolved zooplankton datasets originating from samples collected in the Bay of Biscay in spring over the 2004–2019 period and imaged with the interoperable imaging systems ZooScan and ZooCAM. These datasets are suited for long-term size-based or combined size- and taxonomy-based ecological studies of zooplankton. The set of sorted images are provided along with a set of morphological descriptors that are useful when machine learning is applied to plankton studies.
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