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LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations by imaging (ZooScan) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
Citable as data publication
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2020): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. https://doi.org/10.14284/394
More recent versions (6) Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2025): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/759 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2025): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/711 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2024): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/651 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2023): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/584 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2022): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/543 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2021): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/445 Previous versions (3) view Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2019): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/329 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2018): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/321 Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium (2017): LifeWatch observatory data: zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea . https://doi.org/10.14284/299 Contact:
Mortelmans, Jonas ;
Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Notes: Images are available upon request via LifeWatch Belgium (info@lifewatch.be)
Description
In the framework of the Lifewatch marine observatory a number of fixed stations on the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS) are visited on a monthly or seasonal basis using the RV Simon Stevin. A grid of nine stations covers the coastal zone and are sampled monthly. Eight additional stations, located further at sea, are sampled on a seasonal basis.
This dataset contains zooplankton observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS) since 2012.
Zooplankton is sampled by vertical WP2 net tows, samples scanned with ZooScanner and identification with plankton analyser software, followed by manual validation. Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Data · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Marine Genomics · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · research vessel · Sea regions · Simon Stevin · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Zooplankton · ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) Geographical coverage ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) Stations
[Marine Regions] LW01 Coordinates: X: 2,256; Y: 51,5687 [Lat/long] LW02 Coordinates: X: 2,556; Y: 51,8 [Lat/long] 435 Coordinates: X: 2,7903; Y: 51,5807 [Lat/long] W07bis Coordinates: X: 3,0125; Y: 51,588 [Lat/long] W08 Coordinates: X: 2,35; Y: 51,4583 [Lat/long] W09 Coordinates: X: 2,7; Y: 51,75 [Lat/long] W10 Coordinates: X: 2,4167; Y: 51,6833 [Lat/long] 421 Coordinates: X: 2,45; Y: 51,4805 [Lat/long] 130 Coordinates: X: 2,9054; Y: 51,2706 [Lat/long] 700 Coordinates: X: 3,221; Y: 51,377 [Lat/long] 780 Coordinates: X: 3,0573; Y: 51,4714 [Lat/long] 330 Coordinates: X: 2,8091; Y: 51,4341 [Lat/long] 230 Coordinates: X: 2,8504; Y: 51,3087 [Lat/long] 710 Coordinates: X: 3,1383; Y: 51,4412 [Lat/long] ZG02 Coordinates: X: 2,5007; Y: 51,3352 [Lat/long] 120 Coordinates: X: 2,7025; Y: 51,1861 [Lat/long] 215 Coordinates: X: 2,6108; Y: 51,2749 [Lat/long] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 0,7482; MinLat: 50,1015 - MaxLong: 3,9686; MaxLat: 52,1195 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
From 24 July 2012 on [In Progress] 24 July 2012 - 24 October 2023 (EurOBIS harvested data) Parameters
Abundance of artificial fibres per unit volume of the water body by image analysis [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit volume of the water body [BODC] Abundance of organic and mineral detritus per unit volume of the water body by image analysis [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Abundance of unidentified animal biota (ITIS: 202423: WoRMS 2) per unit volume of the water body by image analysis [BODC] Concentration of ammonium {NH4+ CAS 14798-03-9} per unit volume of the water body dissolved plus reactive particulate <0.2um phase by filtration and colorimetric autoanalysis [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Concentration of chlorophyll-a {chl-a CAS 479-61-8} per unit volume of the water body particulate >GF/F phase by filtration, acetone extraction and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) [BODC] Concentration of phosphate {PO43- CAS 14265-44-2} per unit volume of the water body dissolved plus reactive particulate <0.2um phase by filtration and colorimetric autoanalysis [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Electrical conductivity of the water body [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Practical salinity of the water body by conductivity cell and computation using UNESCO 1983 algorithm [BODC] Size of sample collector (mesh) {mesh size} [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Sub-sampling coefficient [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Temperature of the water body [BODC] Volume of sample [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data) Zooplankton Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator, data manager
Related datasets
Child datasets: LifeWatch observatory data: an imaging (ZooScan) learning set from the Belgian part of the North Sea, more phdEske: PhD thesis Eske, A.: Plankton responses to extreme climate events: zooplankton observations by imaging (ZooScan), more Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Project
LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu, more
Funding FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO)
URLs
Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2019-12-23
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-20
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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