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

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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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Data dictionary CSV https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/Data_dictionary.csv
Sampling locations CSV https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/Sampling_locations.csv
Sampling locations and transects to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites Unknown https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/sampling_monitor_mesozooplankton_communities.zip
Sampling transects CSV https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/a51526d9-79f7-45de-acf1-e79881137eac/attachments/Sampling_transect.csv
Guidance on sampling effort to monitor mesozooplankton communities at Canadian bivalve aquaculture sites using an optical imaging system Ersi 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 system Ersi REST https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/guidance_sampling_monitor_mesozooplankton_communities/MapServer
Technical report HTML https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2023/mpo-dfo/Fs97-6-3581-eng.pdf

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