Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) Zooplankton Census

Second, to better understand their qualitative and quantitative role in the pelagic food web and the cycling of elements in the sea. We are developing a multi-species inventory of zooplankton and micronekton at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) station, a 13-year, ongoing oceanographic time series situated in the western North Atlantic subtropical gyre, or Sargasso Sea. The program will provide high-resolution species data that covers diel seasonal, annual, and decadal time scales.

Detailed accompanying environmental & metadata & data already available from BATS cruises (e.g., water column temperature, oxygen, nutrients, and plant pigment concentration) will be merged with the species data set. A critical research objective is to provide data on species distribution and abundance to OBIS and to serve as a starting place in which data collected in the future can be placed. The purpose of the data is to provide species lists, and counts of different groups of zooplankton.

[Information was obtained from web.vims.edu/bio/zooplankton/BATS/]