Coastal Oceanic Plankton Ecology, Production, and Observation Database
Original (non-English) name
Acronym
COPEPOD
Citation
The content of the COPEPOD plankton database is updated on a monthly-to-quarterly basis. Every two years a printed NOAA technical memorandum is created to summarize the full data content, as well as the latest protocols for quality control and data product synthesis (i.e., new gridded fields, compilations, etc.). This allows users to cite a printed reference or a web site (depending on preference and/or the requirements of their intended publication or works).
The most recent printed NOAA technical memorandum (NMFS-F/ST-37, aka "COPEPOD-2014") is available as an electronic PDF file (here) . The database can be cited as follows:
O'Brien, T.D. 2014. COPEPOD: The Global Plankton Database.
An overview of the 2014 database contents, processing methods, and access interface.
U.S. Dep. Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/ST-37, 29p.
To cite the online database, some possible format examples are:
COPEPOD: the global plankton database. ONLINE. 2019.
Available: https://www.st.nfms.noaa.gov/copepod [8-Sep-2009]."
... or ...
Plankton data were acquired from the COPEPOD global plankton database
<https://www.st.nfms.noaa.gov/copepod>.
Abstract
A global plankton database that contains over 400,000 observations of copepods along with other zooplankton, phytoplankton, and microbial plankton taxa. COPEPOD: The global plankton database. COPEPODITE: The global time-series directory and time series analysis toolkit. NAUPLIUS: Ecosystems data products and visualization tools. COPEPEDIA: Taxonomic information photos and biometric data. This database provides fisheries and marine ecosystems investigators with an integrated data set of quality reviewed globally distributed plankton data along with any available co-sampled environmental hydrographic and meteorological data. These data are provided in a variety of forms e.g. spatial mean fields time-series graphical maps and figures and compilations e.g. from individual data sets to regional or taxa based compilations.