Abstract
The first global atlas compiling information about oceanic plankton, part of the Marine Ecosystem biomass Data (MAREDAT) initiative, contains more than 700,000 entries for their abundance, 400,000 biomass measurements for 10 types of plankton, and more than 40,000 measurements of global HPLC pigments (see www.pagaea.de). “Whereas you can go into any bookstore and buy a book on bird distributions, including colorful maps showing which bird is where, what it eats, and how it lives, there is no such equivalent for plankton ecosystems,” says Meike Vogt of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland, who is a coordinator for the MAREDAT project. “The atlas is a first step towards understanding these planktonic ecosystems a little better.”
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