Biological Plankton Data

Abstract

ICES Data Guidelines exist to support and promote expert science and, when properly adopted, ensure data are more efficiently handled and accurately managed. ICES operational Data and Information Group (DIG) has developed guidelines to assist those involved in the collection, processing, quality control, and exchange of various types of oceanographic data. These guidelines have been adopted by ICES Data Centre and are recommended to all data centres within the broader ICES community. Each set of guidelines addresses the data and metadata requirements of a specific data type. These guidelines address the data and metadata requirements of phytoplankton and zooplankton sampling.