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Dataset Title:	Zooplankton of Lebanon
Institution:	NCSR-NCMS/LNCSR, HCMR (Dataset ID: zoo_lebanon)
Range:	longitude = 35.44 to 35.6°E, latitude = 33.9 to 34.56°N
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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
 s {
  ScientificName {
    String long_name "ScientificName";
    String sdn_P02_name "SeaDataNet biological format biotic parameters";
    String sdn_P02_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/BPRP/";
    String sdn_P02_urn "SDN:P02::BPRP";
    String sdn_parameter_name "Taxon of biological entity specified elsewhere";
    String sdn_parameter_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SCNAME01/";
    String sdn_parameter_urn "SDN:P01::SCNAME01";
    String sdn_uom_name "Not applicable";
    String sdn_uom_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/XXXX/";
    String sdn_uom_urn "SDN:P06::XXXX";
    String standard_name "scientificname";
    String units "Not applicable";
    String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SCNAME01/";
  }
  BasisOfRecord {
    String long_name "BasisOfRecord";
    String units "None";
    String units_uri "None";
  }
  InstitutionCode {
    String long_name "InstitutionCode";
    String units "None";
    String units_uri "None";
  }
  MinimumDepth {
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 0.0;
    String long_name "MinimumDepth";
    String units "None";
    String units_uri "None";
  }
  MaximumDepth {
    Float32 actual_range 0.0, 201.0;
    String long_name "MaximumDepth";
    String units "None";
    String units_uri "None";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 actual_range 35.44, 35.6;
    String axis "X";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
    String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/ALONZZ01";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 actual_range 33.9, 34.56;
    String axis "Y";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
    String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/ALATZZ01";
  }
  aphia_id {
    Float32 actual_range 913.0, 960.0;
    String long_name "aphia_id";
    String sdn_P02_name "SeaDataNet biological format biotic parameters";
    String sdn_P02_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P02/current/BPRP/";
    String sdn_P02_urn "SDN:P02::BPRP";
    String sdn_parameter_name "Identifier (LSID) of biological entity specified elsewhere";
    String sdn_parameter_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SNANID01/";
    String sdn_parameter_urn "SDN:P01::SNANID01";
    String sdn_uom_name "Not applicable";
    String sdn_uom_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/XXXX/";
    String sdn_uom_urn "SDN:P06::XXXX";
    String standard_name "aphia_id";
    String units "Not applicable";
    String units_uri "https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P01/current/SNANID01/";
  }
 }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String AccConID "21";
    String AccConstrDescription "This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.";
    String AccConstrDisplay "This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.";
    String AccConstrEN "Attribution (CC BY)";
    String AccessConstraint "Attribution (CC BY)";
    String Acronym "None";
    String added_date "2013-03-29 12:16:30.153000";
    String BrackishFlag "0";
    String CDate "2012-11-22";
    String cdm_data_type "Other";
    String CheckedFlag "0";
    String Citation "Lakkis S., 2011.  Le Zooplancton Marin du Liban (Méditerranée orientale): Biologie, \tBiodiversité, \tBiogéographie. Publ.Université Libanaise, Beirut, Lebanon,No 23:566p.";
    String Comments "None";
    String ContactEmail "None";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_name "Zeidane, Lakkis, Novel-Lakkis";
    String CurrencyDate "None";
    String DasID "3474";
    String DasOrigin "Monitoring: field survey";
    String DasType "Data";
    String DasTypeID "1";
    String DateLastModified "{'date': '2025-02-18 01:34:01.301036', 'timezone_type': 1, 'timezone': '+01:00'}";
    String DescrCompFlag "1";
    String DescrTransFlag "0";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 35.6;
    String EmbargoDate "None";
    String EngAbstract 
"This dataset contains data of zooplakton species which were found in Lebanese waters. The study area extends over 150 km between the south of Lebanon and offshore Tripoli city in the North. Monthly, seasonally and annual cruises were carried out between 1965 and 2007. Surface and vertical plankton samples were taken at standard depths 0m, 0-25m, 0-100m, 0-200m.
Data are available as a classification of the frequency of occurance.";
    String EngDescr 
"The Levantine Basin of the Eastern Mediterranean, including Lebanese seawaters fall in the warm temperate zone. This marine area is characterized with a heavy ologrtrophic water body and high temperature and salinity. The surface temperature averages vary from 17 °C in February and  a maximum of 30°C  in August, whereas the offshore surface salinity displays little fluctuations between 39.25 in April  and 39.75 in September. These values of T/S are the highest in the whole Mediterranean. Despite of these extreme hydrological conditions, the Lebanese seawater  show a highly diversified plankton community contrasting with poor plankton biomass.  \tMost of the Mediterranean zooplankton groups are present in the area from the Protozoans up to Protochordates and Fish larvae. The zooplakton constitutes the  secondary producer of  organic substance, the phytoplankton being the primary producer. The zooplankton community, as that of the Levantine Basin present a high biodiversitry  with low  biomass and showing  pronounced  seasonal variations  in quality and quantity of the zooplankton. The maximum development of zooplankton is observed  in May June, just following the spring phytoplankton bloom. In winter, zooplankton is poor in quantity  but  very diversified corresponding with the mixing  and turn over of water layers leading to the vertical homothermal conditions. During summer, the stratification of the water masses in the layer 35-75 m creating the thermocline may lead to the impoverishment of zooplankton  in quantity and  quality. The majority of zooplankton organisms  display short biological  life cycle and some of them showing more than one annual generation. Several species that migrated through the Suez Canal, or invaded the Lebanese waters are of Indo-Pacific and/or Erithrean origin, called Lessepsians. Many of them  have established permanent populations competing with local and native  species. 
Many zooplankton species display vertical migrations due to hydrologic, physiologic  and trophic factors.Usually the herbivorous zooplankton stay in the euphotic zone (100-0 m ) rich in phytoplankton, whereas the carnivorous species live in the deeper seawater. However the diurnal vertical migration practiced by many species  has a physiological  and ecological reasons, namely the action of the light, the nutrition and reproduction.
\tGenerally, the LevantineBasin, including the Lebanese seawater is a zone show low primary productivity rate , inducing  poor zooplankton  and thus little  fisheries rentability.";
    String FreshFlag "0";
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 34.56;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min 33.9;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 35.6;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 35.44;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String history 
"2025-03-09T23:18:01Z (local files)
2025-03-09T23:18:01Z http://erddap.eurobis.org/tabledap/zoo_lebanon.das";
    String infoUrl "None";
    String InputNotes "None";
    String institution "NCSR-NCMS/LNCSR, HCMR";
    String keywords "aphia_id, BasisOfRecord, InstitutionCode, latitude, longitude, MaximumDepth, MinimumDepth, ScientificName";
    String License "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/";
    String license 
"The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
    String Lineage "None";
    String MarineFlag "1";
    String modified_sync "2021-02-04 00:00:00";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 34.56;
    String OrigAbstract "None";
    String OrigDescr "None";
    String OrigDescrLang "None";
    String OrigDescrLangNL "None";
    String OrigLangCode "None";
    String OrigLangCodeExtended "None";
    String OrigLangID "None";
    String OrigTitle "None";
    String OrigTitleLang "None";
    String OrigTitleLangCode "None";
    String OrigTitleLangID "None";
    String OrigTitleLangNL "None";
    String Progress "Completed";
    String PublicFlag "1";
    String ReleaseDate "None";
    String ReleaseDate0 "None";
    String RevisionDate "None";
    String SizeReference "859 Species from 33 Sampling stations";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing 33.9;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v70";
    String StandardTitle "Zooplankton of Lebanon";
    String StatusID "1";
    String subsetVariables "ScientificName,BasisOfRecord,aphia_id";
    String summary 
"This dataset contains data of zooplakton species which were found in Lebanese waters. The study area extends over 150 km between the south of Lebanon and offshore Tripoli city in the North. Monthly, seasonally and annual cruises were carried out between 1965 and 2007. Surface and vertical plankton samples were taken at standard depths 0m, 0-25m, 0-100m, 0-200m.
Data are available as a classification of the frequency of occurance.";
    String TerrestrialFlag "0";
    String title "Zooplankton of Lebanon";
    String UDate "2013-01-30";
    String VersionDate "None";
    String VersionDay "None";
    String VersionMonth "None";
    String VersionName "1";
    String VersionYear "None";
    String VlizCoreFlag "1";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 35.44;
  }
}

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