European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
[ report an error in this record ] Print this page
Zooplankton data from LTER MareChiara site in the Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea, (Jan 1984-Dec 2024)
Citation
Di Capua I, Marcucci A, Longobardi L (2026). Zooplankton data from LTER MareChiara site in the Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea, (Jan 1984-Dec 2024). Version 1.1. Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.gbif.it/resource?r=zoogon&v=1.1 https://doi.org/10.15468/3vrqmz
Contact: Di Capua, Iole
Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Description

This dataset contains zooplankton community data collected at the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) station MareChiara, located in the Gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea (40.81°N, 14.25°E), operated by the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN). Samples were collected through vertical net tows from 50 m depth to the surface using an Indian Ocean net (pre-2016) and a WP2 plankton net (from 2016 onwards). Zooplankton abundance is expressed as individuals per cubic metre. The dataset covers the period 1984–2024 and includes taxonomic identifications with World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) Life Science Identifiers (LSIDs), life-stage and sex annotations, and sampling instrument metadata following the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Vocabulary Server standards. Data are structured according to the Darwin Core Event core with Occurrence and Extended Measurement or Fact (eMoF) extensions, following Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) data standards.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plankton > Zooplankton
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Biodiversity · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Copepoda · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · MED, Italy, Campania, Naples Gulf · Mediterranean sea · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · Time series · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Zooplankton · Tyrrhenian Sea · Annelida · Appendicularia · Bryozoa · Copepoda · Ctenophora · Echinodermata · Hydrozoa · Malacostraca · Mollusca · Sagittoidea · Thaliacea
Geographical coverage
Tyrrhenian Sea [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
26 January 1984 - 12 December 2024
Taxonomic coverage
Annelida [WoRMS]
Appendicularia [WoRMS]
Bryozoa [WoRMS]
Copepoda [WoRMS]
Ctenophora [WoRMS]
Echinodermata [WoRMS]
Hydrozoa [WoRMS]
Malacostraca [WoRMS]
Mollusca [WoRMS]
Sagittoidea [WoRMS]
Thaliacea [WoRMS]
Parameters

Area of sample collector (aperture) {mouth area} [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Sampling protocol [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Contributors
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples (SZN), data creator
Di Capua, Iole
Marcucci, Andrea
Worldfish Center, more, data creator
Longobardi, Lorenzo
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2026-05-05
Metadatarecord created: 2026-05-12
Information last updated: 2026-08-13
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy