Mortality in marine copepods can be more important than fecundity for determining population patterns. This dataset from the organization SCIOPS, hosted on NASA Earthdata, focuses on early-stage mortality and recruitment of Calanus finmarchicus and C. helgolandicus. It combines laboratory experiments with field measurements from sites including the L4 station off Plymouth and Stonehaven off Aberdeen.
Use Cases
- Modeling secondary productivity based on mortality and recruitment rates described in the study.
- Assessing the impact of food, starvation, and temperature on early nauplii development and survival.
- Investigating the role of cannibalistic predation in controlling Calanus populations.
- Understanding spatio-temporal abundance patterns by comparing experimental and North Atlantic field data.
Strengths
- Focuses on the most variable and least understood life stages (egg and nauplii) of a key marine genus.
- Integrates controlled laboratory experiments with field measurements from multiple North Atlantic stations.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS
- Collection Method
- Combines detailed laboratory experimental work with field measurements at specified marine stations.
- Geography
- Includes the North Atlantic, specifically the L4 station off Plymouth and Stonehaven off Aberdeen.