Collaborative Research: Diel, Seasonal, and Interannual Patterns in Zooplankton and Micronekton Species Composition in the Subtropical Atlantic

浮游生物群落包括种类繁多的生物，它们构成了海洋食物网的基础。我们提议多？百慕达大西洋时间的浮游动物和微浮游生物种类清单？系列研究（BATS）站，11 ？每年，位于北大西洋西部亚热带环流或马尾藻海的持续海洋学时间序列。该计划将提供高？分辨率物种数据涵盖日、季节、年际和年代际时间尺度。从BATS巡航中获得的详细的附带环境数据（例如，水柱温度、氧气、营养物质和植物色素浓度）为数据集增加了额外的价值。物种和环境“元数据”的格式将采用蝙蝠已经开发和使用的技术，以便将有关数据汇编和提供给OBIS。我们提议的项目将涉及学术界（百慕大生物研究站、伍兹霍尔海洋研究所、俄罗斯科学院动物研究所）和政府（史密森学会国家自然历史博物馆）的参与。我们在北大西洋亚热带系统研究方面拥有丰富的集体经验，并在所有主要浮游动物和微浮游动物分类群的鉴定（和生态学）方面拥有专业知识，从而建立了伙伴关系。该项目将提供高质量的浮游动物和微浮游动物物种组成的时间序列，使我们能够剖析浮游生物群落多样性的自然变异性和真实“变化”之间的差异。这对于测试和验证生态系统模型以及理解长期气候变化对生态系统的影响至关重要。

Planktonic communities comprise an incredibly wide diversity of organisms that form the basis of marine food webs. We propose a multi?species inventory of zooplankton and micronekton at the Bermuda Atlantic Time?series Study (BATS) station, an 11 ?year, ongoing oceanographic time series situated in the western North Atlantic subtropical gyre or Sargasso Sea. The program will provide high?resolution species data that covers diel, seasonal, interannual, and decadal time scales. Detailed accompanying environmental data already available from BATS cruises (e.g., water column temperature, oxygen, nutrients, and plant pigment concentration) add additional value to the data set. Both species and environmental "metadata" will be formatted using techniques already well developed and in use at BATS for compilation and provision of data of interest into OBIS. Our proposed project will involve participation from both academia (Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Russian Academy of Sciences' Zoological Institute) and government (the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History). We have developed a partnership with significant collective experience in the study of the subtropical North Atlantic system and expertise in the identification (and ecology of) all major taxa of zooplankton and micronekton. This project will provide a high quality time series of zooplankton and micronekton species composition enabling us to dissect the difference between natural variability and real 'change' in the diversity of plankton communities. This will be critical for testing and validation of ecosystem models, and for understanding the effects of long term climate change on ecosystems.