Data on zooplankton occurrence and abundance in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters

Volvenko, Igor

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415

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Status: this discussion paper is a preprint. It has been under review for the journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD). The manuscript was not accepted for further review after discussion.

Data on zooplankton occurrence and abundance in the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters

Igor Volvenko

Abstract. The article describes a unique dataset of zooplankton collected by the large Juday net in the North Pacific – one of the most productive and economically important regions of the world ocean (Volvenko, 2021a https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937751): the sources and extent of the information contained therein, its benefits and drawbacks, the first operating experience and prospects. The information in this dataset has already been used to quantify the inventory of marine biological resources and appraise the waters of the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean. In 2016, five tabular reference books were created and printed containing the species composition, occurrence (samples, %) and abundance (ind./m³, mg/m³) of zooplankton in the surveyed area. The data is aggregated by species, developmental stages, size fractions, standard regions, vertical layers of water, light and dark time of day, four seasons of the year and multi-year periods. This information has recently been verified, corrected, translated into English and from text to digital format, and supplemented by GIS with maps of the standard regions by which data was summarized with their morphometric characteristics (Volvenko, 2021b https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937752) to increase its availability to the scientific community worldwide. The scope of application of this data is fundamental to the management of marine resources, aquaculture development, nature conservation, and assessment of the damage of various anthropogenic factors on nature.

Received: 18 Nov 2021 – Discussion started: 03 Dec 2021

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EC1:
'Comment on essd-2021-415', Giuseppe M.R. Manzella, 22 Jun 2022

the paper describes data collected during various expeditions made by TINRO and recounted in many papers published in the recent past. Having the data available and homogenized is very useful, the choice of a communication to ESSD is appreciated, but the editor (and the referees) need to access the data in order to evaluate the work done. Please provide the author with your username and password in order to proceed further.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-EC1
- AC1: 'Reply on EC1', Igor Volvenko, 24 Jun 2022
  
  Temporary login and password for editors and reviewers: "oknevlov@gmail.com" and "master22".
  
  Welcome to download data. Please contact if something goes wrong.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-AC1
RC1:
'Comment on essd-2021-415', Dirk Fleischer, 06 Jul 2022

This manuscript has high similarity (approximatly 80%) with an already rejected manuscript by the author. The dataset has been submitted to two independent repositories (Zenodo and Pangaea) for the two different submission attempts. At both repositories the access for this dataset is restriced.

Communication with the author revealed that the dataset is highly aggregated and therefore its future reusability limited or atleast not as high as it could be. The author mentioned that changes to the dataset and its granularity are not possible since he is not the original owner of the data. After long consideration and under consideration of all these facts and the intransparency I come to the conclusion that I have to recommand the rejection of this manuscript. Even though I believe that data of this kind are important to the evaluation of global change, but this requires the datasets to be reusable as flexible as possible and this seams to be unlickly for this submission

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-RC1
- AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Igor Volvenko, 07 Jul 2022
  
  Dear Professor Fleischer,
  
  This manuscript has high similarity with an already rejected manuscript https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-29, which received two positive reviews with a few remarks, but was not accepted for final publication. Despite the fact that all the corrections recommended by the reviewers were made to the improved version of the manuscript, it was rejected. To understand what was wrong with it, I showed the corrected manuscript to many colleagues from different countries, from whom I have received many recommendations for its further improvement.
  Compared to my first submission, the following changes have been made to the manuscript https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-415/essd-2021-415.pdf in accordance with the demands and wishes of numerous critics. The size of the manuscript has been reduced. Now the main text without Abstract and References has 2160 words, number of figures reduced to one, number of tables – to zero (they are all moved to the Supplement 1). Along with the reduction, the main text was rearranged. Now it only contains what relates to the description of the data being made open. All other information necessary for the correct understanding and use of this dataset has been moved to the Supplement. Many improvements have been made in the rest of the text.
  Compared to my first submission, the following changes have been made in the dataset. For the convenience of users, it is divided into two parts – 1) plankton data and 2) GIS; and their descriptions have been updated and clarified. In the main plankton dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937751 in all csv files ‘;’ replaced with ‘,’ so that these files can be processed without problems by standard software. Once again, the species list has been corrected in accordance with modern taxonomy and accordingly some data are recalculated. The set of morphometric characteristics of each of the regions is supplemented by the coordinates of their centroids. Two variables have been added to the data of all region maps: X_coord - longitude of the centroid in decimal degrees, Y_coord - latitude of the centroid in decimal degrees. See the dbf and Read_me.txt files at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937752.
  Access to the old dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4448646 has been terminated because the corresponding article has not been published. (It is available upon request, though, and has been viewed by 293 users and has 141 downloads so far). According to the rules of PANGAEA, now access to two new datasets is temporarily provided to users, reviewers and editors by the login and password known to you. Full free access will be granted when they receive confirmation that the article has been accepted. If the manuscript is rejected, then access will be closed.
  Based on Metrics, the preprint https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-29 has already been read by over 1,300 scholars and https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-415 by over 700, so there is reason to believe that the publication of the new manuscript will attract many ESSD readers. All such broad-scale and long-term zooplankton sampling efforts and datasets are very valuable. The surveyed region is currently critically under-covered by data available in online diversity repositories. I regret that the copyright holder strictly prohibits the publication of raw or less aggregated data. However, even the data opened in these two datasets were not available to a wide range of scientists, since they were previously published only on paper books (not in digital form), only in Russian, and in a very limited edition for restricted use. In addition, they contained the flaws described in this article, the main of which were fixed for the first time.
  You believe that data of this kind are important to the evaluation of global change, but this requires the datasets not to be so aggregated. However, ecologists dealing with long-term changes in ecosystems most often deal with large marine ecosystems the size of an entire sea. In the datasets proposed for publication, the spatial resolution is one and a half orders of magnitude more accurate, since each body of water (the seas and the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean) is divided into 15 homogeneous zones. This resolution is the same as in the previously published reference books on nekton published in 2003-2006 as tabular annexes to nekton atlases, directories on the pelagic trawl macrofauna published in 2012, and benthic macrofauna published in 2014 (which have received PICES POMA Award 2015 as TINRO-Centre Macrofauna Inventory Publication Series https://meetings.pices.int/awards/POMA_Award/POMA-recipients/2015-POMA). The mentioned books on the bottom and pelagic macrofauna are also published only in text form and only in Russian. Therefore, in the near future I was going to digitize them, translate them into English and, after verifying the species lists, make them more accessible to the world community. The availability of comparable data on mesofauna (zooplankton) and macrofauna would give a holistic view of the main components of ecosystems, and the substantial volume and high quality of the collated data will enable the next important steps to be taken to understand the Far Eastern seas and the Pacific – one of the most productive and economically important regions of the world ocean. The scope of application of this data is fundamental to the management of marine resources, aquaculture development, nature conservation, and assessment of the damage of various anthropogenic factors on nature. As far as I understand, you are trying to convince me to abandon these ideas as vain and useless to anyone by recommending the rejection of this manuscript.
  
  Thank you for your time and assistance.
  
  Kind regards
  Igor V. Volvenko
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-AC2
RC2: 'Comment on essd-2021-415', Giuseppe M.R. Manzella, 05 Sep 2022

The undersigned has verified in google scholar the presence of 14 articles with the same author and the same topic.

The data set has therefore been used for numerous articles and its scientific basis does not present elements of novelty, and the interest in the data set diminished by the author's copious production. As such, publication is not recommended.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-RC2

Status: closed

EC1:
'Comment on essd-2021-415', Giuseppe M.R. Manzella, 22 Jun 2022

the paper describes data collected during various expeditions made by TINRO and recounted in many papers published in the recent past. Having the data available and homogenized is very useful, the choice of a communication to ESSD is appreciated, but the editor (and the referees) need to access the data in order to evaluate the work done. Please provide the author with your username and password in order to proceed further.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-EC1
- AC1: 'Reply on EC1', Igor Volvenko, 24 Jun 2022
  
  Temporary login and password for editors and reviewers: "oknevlov@gmail.com" and "master22".
  
  Welcome to download data. Please contact if something goes wrong.
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-AC1
RC1:
'Comment on essd-2021-415', Dirk Fleischer, 06 Jul 2022

This manuscript has high similarity (approximatly 80%) with an already rejected manuscript by the author. The dataset has been submitted to two independent repositories (Zenodo and Pangaea) for the two different submission attempts. At both repositories the access for this dataset is restriced.

Communication with the author revealed that the dataset is highly aggregated and therefore its future reusability limited or atleast not as high as it could be. The author mentioned that changes to the dataset and its granularity are not possible since he is not the original owner of the data. After long consideration and under consideration of all these facts and the intransparency I come to the conclusion that I have to recommand the rejection of this manuscript. Even though I believe that data of this kind are important to the evaluation of global change, but this requires the datasets to be reusable as flexible as possible and this seams to be unlickly for this submission

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-RC1
- AC2: 'Reply on RC1', Igor Volvenko, 07 Jul 2022
  
  Dear Professor Fleischer,
  
  This manuscript has high similarity with an already rejected manuscript https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-29, which received two positive reviews with a few remarks, but was not accepted for final publication. Despite the fact that all the corrections recommended by the reviewers were made to the improved version of the manuscript, it was rejected. To understand what was wrong with it, I showed the corrected manuscript to many colleagues from different countries, from whom I have received many recommendations for its further improvement.
  Compared to my first submission, the following changes have been made to the manuscript https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-415/essd-2021-415.pdf in accordance with the demands and wishes of numerous critics. The size of the manuscript has been reduced. Now the main text without Abstract and References has 2160 words, number of figures reduced to one, number of tables – to zero (they are all moved to the Supplement 1). Along with the reduction, the main text was rearranged. Now it only contains what relates to the description of the data being made open. All other information necessary for the correct understanding and use of this dataset has been moved to the Supplement. Many improvements have been made in the rest of the text.
  Compared to my first submission, the following changes have been made in the dataset. For the convenience of users, it is divided into two parts – 1) plankton data and 2) GIS; and their descriptions have been updated and clarified. In the main plankton dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937751 in all csv files ‘;’ replaced with ‘,’ so that these files can be processed without problems by standard software. Once again, the species list has been corrected in accordance with modern taxonomy and accordingly some data are recalculated. The set of morphometric characteristics of each of the regions is supplemented by the coordinates of their centroids. Two variables have been added to the data of all region maps: X_coord - longitude of the centroid in decimal degrees, Y_coord - latitude of the centroid in decimal degrees. See the dbf and Read_me.txt files at https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937752.
  Access to the old dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4448646 has been terminated because the corresponding article has not been published. (It is available upon request, though, and has been viewed by 293 users and has 141 downloads so far). According to the rules of PANGAEA, now access to two new datasets is temporarily provided to users, reviewers and editors by the login and password known to you. Full free access will be granted when they receive confirmation that the article has been accepted. If the manuscript is rejected, then access will be closed.
  Based on Metrics, the preprint https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-29 has already been read by over 1,300 scholars and https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-415 by over 700, so there is reason to believe that the publication of the new manuscript will attract many ESSD readers. All such broad-scale and long-term zooplankton sampling efforts and datasets are very valuable. The surveyed region is currently critically under-covered by data available in online diversity repositories. I regret that the copyright holder strictly prohibits the publication of raw or less aggregated data. However, even the data opened in these two datasets were not available to a wide range of scientists, since they were previously published only on paper books (not in digital form), only in Russian, and in a very limited edition for restricted use. In addition, they contained the flaws described in this article, the main of which were fixed for the first time.
  You believe that data of this kind are important to the evaluation of global change, but this requires the datasets not to be so aggregated. However, ecologists dealing with long-term changes in ecosystems most often deal with large marine ecosystems the size of an entire sea. In the datasets proposed for publication, the spatial resolution is one and a half orders of magnitude more accurate, since each body of water (the seas and the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean) is divided into 15 homogeneous zones. This resolution is the same as in the previously published reference books on nekton published in 2003-2006 as tabular annexes to nekton atlases, directories on the pelagic trawl macrofauna published in 2012, and benthic macrofauna published in 2014 (which have received PICES POMA Award 2015 as TINRO-Centre Macrofauna Inventory Publication Series https://meetings.pices.int/awards/POMA_Award/POMA-recipients/2015-POMA). The mentioned books on the bottom and pelagic macrofauna are also published only in text form and only in Russian. Therefore, in the near future I was going to digitize them, translate them into English and, after verifying the species lists, make them more accessible to the world community. The availability of comparable data on mesofauna (zooplankton) and macrofauna would give a holistic view of the main components of ecosystems, and the substantial volume and high quality of the collated data will enable the next important steps to be taken to understand the Far Eastern seas and the Pacific – one of the most productive and economically important regions of the world ocean. The scope of application of this data is fundamental to the management of marine resources, aquaculture development, nature conservation, and assessment of the damage of various anthropogenic factors on nature. As far as I understand, you are trying to convince me to abandon these ideas as vain and useless to anyone by recommending the rejection of this manuscript.
  
  Thank you for your time and assistance.
  
  Kind regards
  Igor V. Volvenko
  
  Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-AC2
RC2: 'Comment on essd-2021-415', Giuseppe M.R. Manzella, 05 Sep 2022

The undersigned has verified in google scholar the presence of 14 articles with the same author and the same topic.

The data set has therefore been used for numerous articles and its scientific basis does not present elements of novelty, and the interest in the data set diminished by the author's copious production. As such, publication is not recommended.

Citation: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2021-415-RC2

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Digitized, corrected and translated data on net zooplankton of the Far East seas and adjacent Pacific Ocean waters from five rare reference books published in Russian in limited editions Igor V. Volvenko https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937751

GIS of standard Regions for averaging data from plankton and trawl surveys with their morphometric characteristics Igor V. Volvenko https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.937752

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Rare information from Russian ecosystem surveys (from 1984 to 2013) on the occurrence and abundance of net zooplankton with data for 214 taxa in the Chukchi and Bering Seas, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan and the North Pacific Ocean was recently verified, corrected, translated into English and from text to digital format, and supplemented by GIS maps of standard regions for which the data were summarized in order to increase their accessibility to the scientific community around the world.


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