Phytoplankton in longitudinal east-west transect of the Mediterranean Sea,1999.

Lydia Ignatiades1, Aglaia Legaki2, Stamatina Nikolopoulou3, Kalliopi Pagou4, Evangelia Krasakopoulou5, Olympia Gotsis-Skretas4

1 Demokritos, Institute of Biosciences and Applications, , Greece; 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, , Greece; 3 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, ; 4 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Oceanography, 46.7 km. Athens-Souniou, PO Box 712, Anavyssos, 19013, Attiki; 5 University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Mytilene, Greece

Corresponding author(s): Lydia Ignatiades (lyigna@otenet.gr), Aglaia Legaki (aglalegaki@biol.uoa.gr), Stamatina Nikolopoulou

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Resource Citation

Phytoplankton in longitudinal east-west transect of the Mediterranean Sea, 1999.Lydia Ignatiades.

Abstract

The scope of this study was to explore the diversification of the phytoplankton community structure and related ecological determinants along a large scale (3188 km) longitudinal transect, covering the region from eastern Mediterranean to Western Basin. Sampling was performed during the period June – July of 1999. Six stations were located in the Eastern Basin, one station in the Sicily strait and two stations in the Western Basin.A total of 216 species were identified(48 diatoms, 112 dinoflagellates and 56 coccolithophores).

Keywords: Occurrence

Project details

Project title: MTP-II project 'MATER: Mass Transfer and Ecosystem Response'
Personnel: Lydia Ignatiades
Funding: This research was undertaken within the framework of the TransMediterranean Cruise of the MTP-II project 'MATER: Mass Transfer and Ecosystem Response' jointly funded by the European Commission’s Marine Science and Technology III (MAST-III) Programme and the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.medobis.eu/resource?r=transmed

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This dataset contains data about Diatoms, Dinoflagellates and Coccolithophores.
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Haptophyta
Class: Bacillariophyceae, Dinophyceae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: It covers the region from Eastern to Western Mediterranean Sea.9 Stations TM1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
Coordinates: 31°55'48''N and 43°13'12''N Latitude; 1°20'24''E and 37°4'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 7, 1999 - July 1, 1999

Methods

Method step description: -
Study extent description: This dataset is based on a large scale longitudinal transect from eastern Mediterranean sea to the Western Basin, in June and July 1999.
Sampling description: Samples were collected from routine hydrocasts using a CTD rosette sampler from 1, 10, 20, 50, 75, 100 and 120 m.
Temperature and salinity were recorded using a Seabird Electronics SBE-911+ CTD profiler.
Samples for chlorophyll a determination (2 L from each sampling depth) were filtered on board through 0.2 mm polycarbonate Millipore filters and kept frozen until analysis in the laboratory with a TURNER 00-AU-10 fluorometer.
Samples for the determination of nutrients were collected in 100 ml polyethylene bottles and kept at -20oC, until their analysis in the laboratory with a Bran+Luebbe II autoanalyser. Phosphate was measured with a Perkin Elmer Lambda 2S UV/VIS Spectrometer.
Quality control description: Stations were plotted on Google earth for a visual check.
Taxonomic quality control was done using the online taxon match tool of WoRMS.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Phytoplankton in longitudinal east-west transect of the Mediterranean Sea,1999.
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.medobis.eu/archive.do?r=transmed
Publication date of data: 2020-04-14
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2015-09-28
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Ignatiades, L., O. Gotsis-Skretas, K. Pagou, and E. Krasakopoulou (2009), Diversification of phytoplankton community structure and related parameters along a large-scale longitudinal east-west transect of the Mediterranean Sea, J. Plankton Res., 31, 411–428. http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/4/411.full.pdf+html