RAPID : research on automated plankton identification

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2007-06
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Benfield, Mark C.
Grosjean, Philippe
Culverhouse, Phil F.
Irigoien, Xabier
Sieracki, Michael E.
Lopez-Urrutia, Angel
Dam, Hans G.
Hu, Qiao
Davis, Cabell S.
Hansen, Allen
Pilskaln, Cynthia H.
Riseman, Edward M.
Schultz, Howard
Utgoff, Paul E.
Gorsky, Gabriel
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10.5670/oceanog.2007.63
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When Victor Hensen deployed the first true plankton1 net in 1887, he and his colleagues were attempting to answer three fundamental questions: What planktonic organisms are present in the ocean? How many of each type are present? How does the plankton’s composition change over time? Although answering these questions has remained a central goal of oceanographers, the sophisticated tools available to enumerate planktonic organisms today offer capabilities that Hensen probably could never have imagined.
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Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 20, 2 (2007): 172-187.
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Oceanography 20, 2 (2007): 172-187
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