Explorations into zooplankton data
The aim of this is to import the estuarine and coastal zooplankton monitoring data gathered as part of the Environment Agency's monitoring programme.
- Generate report investigating drivers of change in inshore zooplankton data
- What is the bigger picture?
- are some regions different to others?
- consider regional and temporal differences in taxon diversity and density
- how do these parameters link to environmental pressures? (nutrients, temperature, salinity)
- Do relative proportions of zooplankton lifeforms show regional differences? (e.g., Large:Small copepods)
- Update 'carbon content' variable names to specify units. e.g., currently have names like 'md_carbTot_m3'. Should be 'md_ug_carbTot_m3'
- look at variability of 'clustered' sites (Solent, Kent, (Northumberland?))