Description
A study of the plankton in the Suez Canal could throw some light from the explanatory point of view, on the distribution of the planktonic forms of the two different water bodies of the Mediterranean and Red Sea. From the fisheries point of view, the plankton study is indispensable to seek out the relation between the abundance and movement of fishes and the fluctuations in the plankton; both in quantity and quality at different times, places and depths.
Data Records
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Mavraki Dimitra and Nikolopoulou Stamatina (2017). Digitation of The Plankton of the Egyptian Waters. A study of the Suez Canal Plankton. Notes and Memoirs No 24. Hydrobiological and Fisheries Directorate, 1939, Egypt
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Hellenic Center for Marine Research. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 324221f2-eb92-419b-88d5-a44e85c9898c. Hellenic Center for Marine Research publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Metadata; Mediterranean Sea; Phytoplankton
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Geographic Coverage
suez canal. The map of stations can be found at the paper "R. Macdonald (1933). An examination of Plankton Hauls made in the Suez Canal during the year 1928. Notes and Memoirs, No3. Fisheries Research Directorate"
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [29.44, 31.871], North East [31.541, 33.871] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Myzozoa, Ochrophyta |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1934-08-03 / 1936-05-24 |
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Sampling Methods
Hauls were taken with the international horizontal tow-nets; the fine net has 200 and the coarse 60 strands per inch. The length of the bolting silk is 2 meters and the mouth of the net is 50cm in diameter. Two small motor boats were used; "EL-HILAL" and "EI - ZAFIR".
| Study Extent | Six stations were examined: S.C.1 - Western Jetty at mouth of the Canal S.C.2 - Ballah signal station S.C.3 - 1km S.W. of the Canal Company's landing stage at Ismailia S.C.4 - Northern Light buoy in Great Bitter Lake S.C.5 - Kilometre 130 of the Canal in Little Bitter Lake S.C.6 - Last buoy but one of the Western side of the Canal at Port Tewfik |
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Method step description:
- The catches; as soon as they were brought up to the boats were treated with 4% formalin (40% commercial formalin diluted with sea water to 4%). The nets after each catch were washed thoroughly first is sea water and then in fresh water and allowed to dry in the shade by hanging in the air, as direct sunlight had a detrimental effect upon the life of nets. Hydrographical observations were recorded at every station. The Temperature and PH were also recorded.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | This dataset is only a part from a large faunistical expedition(http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=egyptexpeditionpreliminaryrepor) that took place in the coasts near Alexandria. |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS.
| Alternative Identifiers | 324221f2-eb92-419b-88d5-a44e85c9898c |
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