Guidance on sampling effort to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites using an optical imaging system

Guidance on sampling effort to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites using an optical imaging system As part of the development of a nationally-consistent sampling design within the Aquaculture Monitoring Program (AMP), this data reports mesozooplankton assemblages observed at nine coastal shellfish aquaculture sites, located across four DFO regions, with sampling across months, tide phases, and sampling locations. In most sites, strong spatial effects were observed, while tide effects were generally less important for structuring the mesozooplankton communities. Seasonality emerged as an essential factor to design an efficient monitoring program. This dataset represents the first large-scale Canadian coastal study using imaging technology for plankton taxonomic Identification. Cite this data as: Finnis, S., Guyondet, T., McKindsey, C.W., Arseneau, J., Barrell, J., Duhaime, J., Filgueira, R., Gallardi, D., Gaspard, D., Gibb, O., Goodwin, C., Hua, K., Macdonald, T., Milne, R., Lacoursière-Roussel, A. 2023. Guidance on sampling effort to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites using an optical imaging system. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3581: vii + 101 p 2025-03-04 Fisheries and Oceans Canada Anais.Lacoursiere@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentScience and TechnologyMesozooplanktonShellfishOptical imagingAquaculture Monitoring Program (AMP)AquacultureCoastal watersOceansEcosystemsBritish ColumbiaNova ScotiaPrince Edward IslandNew BrunswickNewfoundland and Labrador Sampling locationsCSV https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/Sampling_locations.csv Sampling transectsCSV https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/Sampling_transect.csv Sampling locations and transects to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sitesFGDB/GDB https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/sampling_monitor_mesozooplankton_communities.zip Data dictionaryCSV https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/Data_dictionary.csv Guidance on sampling effort to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites using an optical imaging systemESRI REST https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/guidance_sampling_monitor_mesozooplankton_communities/MapServer Guidance on sampling effort to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites using an optical imaging systemESRI REST https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/guidance_sampling_monitor_mesozooplankton_communities/MapServer Technical reportHTML https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2023/mpo-dfo/Fs97-6-3581-eng.pdf

As part of the development of a nationally-consistent sampling design within the Aquaculture Monitoring Program (AMP), this data reports mesozooplankton assemblages observed at nine coastal shellfish aquaculture sites, located across four DFO regions, with sampling across months, tide phases, and sampling locations. In most sites, strong spatial effects were observed, while tide effects were generally less important for structuring the mesozooplankton communities. Seasonality emerged as an essential factor to design an efficient monitoring program. This dataset represents the first large-scale Canadian coastal study using imaging technology for plankton taxonomic Identification.

Cite this data as: Finnis, S., Guyondet, T., McKindsey, C.W., Arseneau, J., Barrell, J., Duhaime, J., Filgueira, R., Gallardi, D., Gaspard, D., Gibb, O., Goodwin, C., Hua, K., Macdonald, T., Milne, R., Lacoursière-Roussel, A. 2023. Guidance on sampling effort to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites using an optical imaging system. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3581: vii + 101 p

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