Biological Plankton Data

ICES Data Guidelines exist to support and promote expert science and, when properly adopted, ensure data are more efficiently handled and accurately managed. ICES Data and Information Group (DIG) have developed guidelines to assist those involved in the collection, processing, quality control, and exchange of various types of oceanographic data. Each set of guidelines addresses the data and metadata requirements of a specific data type. The guidelines presented here address the data and metadata requirements of phytoplankton and zooplankton sampling.