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The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey

The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey is the most geographically extensive marine monitoring programme in the world. Today the Survey is operated by the Marine Biological Association, based in Plymouth, UK.

Operating since 1931, the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey is recognised as the longest sustained and geographically most extensive marine biological survey in the world. The dataset comprises a uniquely large record of marine biodiversity covering ~800 taxa over multi-decadal periods. In terms of our scientific understanding of natural variability and human-induced change on our oceans, the CPR survey is of global importance and it is used by scientists, policy makers and environmental managers across the world. The data is used to examine strategically important science pillars such as climate change, human health, fisheries, biodiversity, pathogens, invasive species, ocean acidification and natural capital. The results have included the globally first documented studies of large-scale ecological regime shifts, and of biogeographic, phenological and trans-arctic migrations in the marine environment in response to climate change.

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 252,385 records. 2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

 
Citation proposal
David Johns (Marine Biological Association) (2020) . The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9b84bb07-3e69-45fe-93b9-607ef8066410

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Date ( Publication )
2020-09-28
Identifier
9b84bb07-3e69-45fe-93b9-607ef8066410

 

Date ( Publication )
2019-01-01

Credit
Marine Biological Association (MBA)
Status
On going

  Author

Marine Biological Association - David Johns (Head of CPR Survey )  
The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, The Hoe Plymouth Devon PL1 2PB United Kingdom

  +44 1752 426492  
Website
http://www.cprsurvey.org/  
Thèmes Sextant ( Theme )
  • /Biological environment
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
Mission Atlantic - Resources ( Theme )
  • Database
Mission Atlantic - Case Studies ( Theme )
  • Celtic Seas
Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters ( Theme )
  • /Biological oceanography/Zooplankton , /Biological oceanography/Phytoplankton and microphytobenthos , /Biological oceanography/Microzooplankton
Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP) ( Theme )
  • Biological data
Use constraints
License
Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Geometric object type
Point
OnLine resource
Data records (DwC-A)  
OnLine resource
Geospatial representation of CPR Data (North Atlantic)  
OnLine resource
CPR Survey website  
OnLine resource
MBA/DASSH CPR data  
Hierarchy level
initiative

Metadata

File identifier
9b84bb07-3e69-45fe-93b9-607ef8066410   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
initiative
Date stamp
2021-12-08T16:17:42
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT
Metadata standard version
1.0

  Point of contact

Ifremer - Sextant  
ZI Pointe du Diable Plouzane Brittany 29280 France

Website
https://sextant.ifremer.fr/eng  
 
 

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