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Abundance and distribution of coastal, inshore zooplankton in the Huon Estuary and D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania: Grazing study in North West Bay (1-2 October, 2006)

Mesozooplankton community composition and structure were examined throughout the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Huon Estuary and North West Bay, Tasmania. The data represented by this record was collected as part of a grazing study conducted in North West Bay (1-2 October, 2006).


The grazing impacts of microzooplankton and mesoplankton on the phytoplankton communities were examined during several process studies. Experiments with mesozooplankton grazers were restricted to dominant omnivorous copepods (e.g. Acartia tranteri, Paracalanus indicus, Centropages australiensis) cladocerans and appendicularians. Grazing rates of microzooplankton reached as high as 96% of daily primary production, while that of mesozooplankton herbivours was never greater than 20%. Trophic interactions between the species are complicated by the recent arrival of the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans to the region. This species grazes heavily on phytoplankton, smaller zooplankton and faecal pellets. Noctiluca scintillans accounted for up to 20% of mesozooplankton abundance in autumn and it is capable of both suppressing zooplankton abundance and reducing the sedimentation of faecal pellets to the seafloor.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2007-10-12T14:40:00

Principal investigator

Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute (TAFI) - Swadling, Kerrie Dr
Private Bag 49
Hobart
TAS
7001
Australia
61 3 6227 7277
Purpose
As part of the FRDC project entitled A whole-of-ecosystem assessment of environmental issues for salmonid aquaculture (FRDC number 2004/074; Aquafin CRC project number 4.2(2)), studies of mesozooplankton were initiated in 2004 when it was recognised that they play a critical role in the fate of nutrient cycling within the pelagic environment. The inclusion of zooplankton into the Aquafin CRC study began during Phase 2, with the commencement of regular sampling for mesozooplankton in October 2004 and grazing studies in September 2005. Few studies have examined the distribution of mesozooplankton in temperate Australian estuaries, and there is a particular dearth of studies from recent times. Until this study of the Huon Estuary and D’Entrecasteaux Channel we lacked even rudimentary baseline information concerning zooplankton biodiversity and their distributions in space and time in that region.
Credit
Aquafin CRC
Status
Completed

Principal investigator

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Swadling, Kerrie Dr
IMAS - Taroona
Private Bag 49
Hobart
TAS
7001
Australia
61 3 6227 7218
Temporal resolution
P0Y1M0DT0H0M0S
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
2006-10-01T00:00:00 2006-10-02T00:00:00

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
20
Identifier
EPSG::5715
Name
MSL depth
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title
Microsoft Excel (xls)
Date
Edition
2003
Keywords (Theme)
  • Secondary productivity
  • Grazing rates
Keywords (Taxon)
  • Copepods
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
  • GRAZING DYNAMICS/PLANT HERBIVORY
  • ZOOPLANKTON
  • COASTAL HABITAT
  • COPEPODS
  • AQUACULTURE
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Temperate Reef
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment
  • Biological Oceanography
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Keywords (Theme)
  • Clearance rate
AODN Instrument Vocabulary
  • plankton nets

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania through the Tasmanian Aquaculture and Fisheries Institute.

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Associated resource

Title
Abundance and distribution of coastal inshore zooplankton in the Huon Estuary and D'Entrecasteaux Channel Tasmania 2004 to 2005
Date (Creation)
2011-11-15T00:00:00
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Supplemental Information
Richardson, A.J., McKinnon, A.D. and Swadling, K.M. (2009) Chapter 13: Zooplankton. In Report Card of Marine Climate Change for Australia; detailed scientific assessment, NCCARF Publication 05/09, ISBN 978-1-921609-03-9. Volkman, J.K., Thompson, P., Herzfeld, M., Wild-Allen, K., Blackburn, S., Macleod, C., Swadling, K., Foster, S., Bonham, P. Holdsworth, D., Clementson, L., Skerratt, J. Rosebrock, U., Andrewartha, J. and Revill, A. (2009) A whole-of-ecosystem assessment of environmental issues for salmonid aquaculture. Aquafin CRC Project 4.2(2) (FRDC Project No. 2004/074) 197 pp. Swadling K.M., Macleod, C.K., Foster, S. and Slotwinski, A.S. (2008) Zooplankton in the Huon Estuary and D’Entrecasteaux Channel: community structure, trophic relationships and role in biogeochemical cycling. Technical Report, Aquafin CRC Project 4.2(2) (FRDC Project No. 2004/074), 25 pp Revill, A.T., Holdsworth, D.G., Volkman, J.K. and Swadling, K.M. (2008) Fluxes of organic matter and lipids to sediments in the Huon estuary. Technical Report, Aquafin CRC Project 4.2(2) (FRDC Project No. 2004/074), 38 pp. Holdsworth, D.G., Revill, A.T., Volkman J.K. and Swadling, K.M. (2008) Lipids in sediment traps and sediments from North West Bay, Tasmania. Technical Report, Aquafin CRC Project 4.2(2) (FRDC Project No. 2004/074), 25 pp.

Content Information

Content type
Physical measurement
Name
Clearance rate

Name
ml/individual/hour

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • Microsoft Excel (xls)

Distributor

Principal investigator

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Swadling, Kerrie Dr
OnLine resource
DATA ACCESS - grazing experiment [direct download]

OnLine resource
imas:AQF_KMSwadling_Abundance_distribution_coastal_inshore_zooplankton_grazing_study_GV

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Resource lineage

Statement
A grazing experiment was conducted in North West Bay (1-2 October 2006). Mesozooplankton for these experiments were obtained from slow tows with a Bongo net fitted with a closed cod-end, to reduce damage to the animals. Undamaged individuals were sorted from the cod-end, identified and a known number of one species placed in 1L bottles containing surface seawater. The bottles were incubated under in situ light and temperature for 24 hours. Natural seawater without additions was used, with the only modification being the removal of mesozooplankton grazers via a 200 um mesh screen. The density of grazers was adjusted according to their size and literature clearance rates of congeneric species. Between 10 and 20 grazers were added to each experimental bottle. Microscope counts of initial and final subsamples of the incubation water were used to calculate clearance rates for each species.
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Dataset
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Instrument

Identifier

Code
plankton nets

Metadata

Metadata identifier
c2d305d0-f7bc-41f7-843d-a4e772efa320

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c2d305d0-f7bc-41f7-843d-a4e772efa320

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Date info (Creation)
2020-08-14T11:40:43
Date info (Revision)
2020-08-14T11:40:43

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

Clearance rate Grazing rates Secondary productivity
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
Aquatic Ecosystem Studies and Stock Assessment Biological Oceanography Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords Version 8.0
AQUACULTURE COASTAL HABITAT COPEPODS GRAZING DYNAMICS/PLANT HERBIVORY ZOOPLANKTON

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