Eilif Gaard, Høgni Debes, Erling Kåre Stenevik, Catherine Johnson, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Pierre Pepin, Guillem Chust, James J. Pierson, Sigrun Jonasdottir, Priscilla Licandro, Barbara Niehoff, Webjørn Melle, Claudia Castellani, Cecilie Broms, Michael R. Heath, Astthor Gislason, Jeffrey A. Runge, Erica J. H. Head, Tone Falkenhaug, and Stéphane Plourde
Here we present a new, pan-North-Atlantic compilation of data on key mesozooplankton species, including the most important copepod, Calanus finmarchicus. Distributional data of eight representative zooplankton taxa, from recent (2000–2009) Continuous Plankton Recorder data, are presented, along with basin-scale data of the phytoplankton colour index. Then we present a compilation of data on C. finmarchicus, including observations of abundance, demography, egg production and female size, with accompanying data on temperature and chlorophyll. This is a contribution by Canadian, European and US scientists and their institutions: http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.820732, http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.824423, http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.828393 (please also see Melle et al., 2013; Castellani and Licandro, 2013; Jónasdóttir et al., 2014).