Publication Date:
2024-03-02
Description:
Although the oceanic widespread pelagic tunicate Soestia zonaria has been studied for more than a century, little ecological information exists. Soestia primarily occurs in tropical to warm-temperate regions. Soestia specimens were collected between 2015 and 2021 during three research expeditions (EXPORTS cruise to the Northeast Atlantic and TAN1516 and TAN1810 over the Chatham Rise, New Zealand) using MOCNESS-1 net and large midwater trawl with maximum sampling depths of 1000 m. More than 530 Soestia specimens (oral-atrial length: 4–68 mm) were analysed for their vertical distribution, i.e., weighted mean depths (WMD) during the day and night, and migration distance.
Keywords:
61TG20151203; Calculated; Chatham Rise; Cruise/expedition; DATE/TIME; DEPTH, water; Depth, water, bottom/maximum; Depth, water, top/minimum; DVM; Event label; EXPORTS_P6; EXPORTS_P7; EXPORTS_P8; EXPORTS_P9; Fraction; Gear; Intraspecific variability; LATITUDE; Layer thickness; LONGITUDE; Method comment; MOC1; MOCNESS opening/closing plankton net 1 sqm; Net ID; North Atlantic; Number of specimens; Ocean and sea region; Pair ID; Pelagic tunicate; RULER; Ruler stick; Salp Particle expOrt and Ocean Production (SalpPOOP); Soestia zonaria; Soestia zonaria, blastozooid/oozooid ratio; Soestia zonaria, development stage; Soestia zonaria, embryos; Soestia zonaria, life stage; Soestia zonaria, oral-atrial length; Soestia zonaria, total length; Species, unique identification; Species, unique identification (Semantic URI); Species, unique identification (URI); Specimen identification; stoichiometry; TAN1516; TAN1516_P11; TAN1516_P12; TAN1516_P13; TAN1516_P14; TAN1516_P15; TAN1516_P16; TAN1810; TAN1810_P25; TAN1810_P27; TAN1810_P28; TAN1810_P29; TAN1810_P30; TAN1810_P31; Tangaroa; Time of day; Tow ID; Water volume, filtered
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 11608 data points
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