Titre :

All plankton sampling systems underestimate abundance: Response to "Continuous plankton recorder underestimates zooplankton abundance" by J.W. Dippner and M. Krause

Auteur(s) :

Owens, Njp [Auteur]
Hosie, Gw [Auteur]
Batten, Sd [Auteur]
Edwards, M. [Auteur]
Johns, Dg [Auteur]
Beaugrand, Grégory [Auteur]
Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 [LOG]

Titre de la revue :

Journal of Marine Systems

Pagination :

240-242

Éditeur :

Elsevier

Date de publication :

2013-12

ISSN :

0924-7963

Discipline(s) HAL :

Planète et Univers [physics]/Sciences de la Terre/Océanographie

Résumé en anglais : [en]

It is axiomatic in plankton research that no plankton sampler, or combination of plankton samplers, can provide a true estimate of abundance for all components of the plankton at anytime. Plankton vary in size from the ...
Lire la suite >It is axiomatic in plankton research that no plankton sampler, or combination of plankton samplers, can provide a true estimate of abundance for all components of the plankton at anytime. Plankton vary in size from the microbic to large ctenophores and jellyfish, from robust to those extremely fragile and almost impossible to catch without damage. Plankton have extremely diverse behavioural patterns, daily and seasonal vertical migration, and different feeding, reproductive, survival and escape strategies. Even within the crustacean mesozooplankton abundances vary in four dimensions. Consequently, it has been necessary to develop numerous different types of sampling systems, and different mesh sizes have been used, in order to capture or observe the various components of plankton. Wiebe and Benfield (2003) listed more than 200 systems and that is not exhaustive. All systems underestimate parts of or all the plankton leading researchers to choose the system most suited to their study...Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187

Source :

Harvested from HAL