KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016

Atkinson, Angus; Hill, Simeon L.; Pakhomov, Evgeny A.; Siegel, Volker; Anadon, Ricardo; Chiba, Sanae; Daly, Kendra L.; Downie, Rod; Fielding, Sophie; Fretwell, Peter; Gerrish, Laura; Hosie, Graham W.; Jessopp, Mark J.; Kawaguchi, So; Krafft, Bjørn A.; Loeb, Valerie; Nishikawa, Jun; Peat, Helen J.; Reiss, Christian S.; Ross, Robin M.; Quetin, Langdon B.; Schmidt, Katrin; Steinberg, Deborah K.; Subramaniam, Roshni C.; Tarling, Geraint A.; Ward, Peter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-193-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 193–210, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-193-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 193–210, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-193-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

Review article 16 Mar 2017

Review article | 16 Mar 2017

KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016

Angus Atkinson et al.

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RC1: 'An excellent effort and an excellent compilation.', Todd O'Brien, 05 Dec 2016
RC2: 'Review of the Manuscript “KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926-2016” by Atkinson et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Dec 2016
RC3: 'RC: Review Atkinson et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 25 Jan 2017
AC1: 'Author Response to Referee comments', Angus Atkinson, 09 Feb 2017

Short summary

KRILLBASE is a data rescue and compilation project to improve the availability of information on two key Southern Ocean zooplankton: Antarctic krill and salps. We provide a circumpolar database that combines 15 194 scientific net hauls (1926 to 2016) from 10 countries. These data provide a resource for analysing the distribution and abundance of krill and salps throughout the Southern Ocean to support ecological and biogeochemical research as well as fisheries management and conservation.