Monitorización multidisciplinar de las aguas mediterráneas españolas

The goals of this campaign are framed within the objectives of the overall project 'Radial Profunda de Canarias', being the experimental cruise of the proposal. Thus, this cruise will help to: - Determine the structure of the current when it reaches the Canary Islands, mass transport, heat and nutrients and interannual variability. - Characterize the different modes of variability of heat and mass transport in easternorth atlantic subtropical gyre. - Characterize the annual cycle in the physical conditions of the surface layers and mixture to where the seasonal cycle is significant, relating it to the meteorological forcings. - Characterization of changes in water masses, mainly in the North Atlantic Central Water (NACW), in Antarctic Atlantic Intermediate Water (AAIW) in Mediterranean Water (MW) and bottom waters of the Canary Basin, in based on temperature, salinity, nutrients and oxygen.

Multidisciplinary monitoring of the Spanish Mediterranean waters

1. Estimation de l¿abondance de les poissons pélagiques par echointegration de les eaux côtières sud de l¿Europe. 2. Cartographie de l¿are de distribution. 3. Estimation de la abondance des ouefs par enregistrementg en continue. 4. Etalonnage entre l¿enregistrement en continue des ouefs et les classiques estations avec Pairovet. 5. Estimation de la biomasse fractionée (Mèthode CHN) de plankton. 6. Etude de les conditions oceanographiques et méteorologiques et sa rélation avec la distribution et abondance des oeufs et adultes des poissons pélagiques. 7. Hydrologie: Charactesisation des propietés termohalines des eaux sur le plateau continental. Mesure de profiles verticales de température, salinité et fluorescende dans des stations et acquisition de données de surface (thermosalinometrie, fluorescence, métèorologie). 8. Placton: Détermination des patrons de distribution de la diversité taxonomique et de la biomasse en différent classes de taille du plancton (phyto et zooplancton) dans la zone d¿étude. 9. Cartographie de l'abondance des prédateurs

Fate of the northwestern Mediterranean open sea spring bloom

Abundance indices, distribution patterns and faunal assemblages of demersal species in the northern coast of Spain (Atlantic Galician shelf and Cantabrian sea shelf), together with the possible driving factors of their distribution. This survey belongs to the research project: "Evaluación de Recursos Demersales por Métodos Directos en el Área ICES". This Project is partly funded by the DCR of the EU and the Education and Science Spanish Ministery.The main objectives of the above mentioned project related with this survey time series are: a) to obtain abundance indices of the main exploited species in the study area; b) to estimate the strength of yearly recruitments of these species and their distribution in the area. c) to study the structure and distribution o the demersal and benthic communities in the area.

Multidisciplinary monitoring of the Spanish Mediterranean waters

Abundance indices, distribution patterns and faunal assemblages of demersal species in the Porcupine bank, together with the possible driving factors of their distribution. This survey belongs to the research project: "Evaluación de Recursos Demersales por Métodos Directos en el Área ICES". This Project is partly funded by the DCR of the EU and the Science and Innovation Spanish Ministry.The main objectives of the above mentioned project related with this survey time series are: a) to obtain abundance indices of the main exploited species in the Porcupine bank; b) to estimate the strength of yearly recruitments of these species and their distribution in the bank. c) to study the structure and distribution o the demersal and benthic communities in the area.

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Benthopelagic ecosystem structure in the western Mediterranean: a multidisciplinary approach and different time scales in the Balearic Islands.