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Collaborate to the GLEON project ZooSize!

ZooSize aims to get well represented individual crustacean zooplankton body length measurements for freshwater lakes across global lake thermal regions to gain insights on the following fundamental research question:

How do size distributions of crustacean zooplankton communities differ across the globe and how are they influenced by bottom-up and top-down processes?

Read more about our question, the data requirements, and authors guidelines in our collaboration guidelines. You can download the collaboration guidelines (.pdf) and data call form (.xslx) by clicking on the buttons below. If you have data for several lakes, you can either fill the template for one lake several times, or fill the multi-lakes template (links below). Feel free to email me or one of the other project champions (Maria Calderó-Pascual, Zeynep Ersoy, and Lauren Barth) for an example on how to fill in the data call if necessary.

[Jan 2022 update]
We realized that there is quite a diversity in sample preservative used. If you have 5-minutes, could you please fill-in this Google Form, asking details about your method. We will use the answers to (1) issue a recommendation for new data providers, if they don’t have a fixed SOP at their lab, and (2) assess the need for having a sub-group work on quantifying the size differences from a same sample when different methods have been used. Do not hesitate to share the form with your colleagues, as you don’t have to be part of the project to answer!

AuthorGuidelines

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SOP

See the timeline of the project here. Important dates:

  • October 2020: GLEON 21.5 meeting - creation of the working group ZooSize
  • August 2021: Data call
  • December 2021: Deadline for submission of existing data
  • February 2022: New project co-champion! We are welcoming Zeynep Ersoy :)
  • March 2023: Deadline for submission of data from new sampling efforts

Contacts

Project champions: Maria Calderó-Pascual (DKIT, Ireland), Rosalie Bruel (French Biodiversity Agency (OFB), France), Zeynep Ersoy (University of Barcelona, Spain), Lauren Barth (University of Toronto, Canada).

Email us if you have any question on the project.

We (@CalderoPM, @LimnoLauren, @RosalieBruel, @zzeynepersoy) will tweet some project updates on Twitter with the tag #ZooSize.



Project participants’ section

During the general meetings, we shared the link to a document with all the important documents and links (literature review, data analysis, etc.). If you need that link again, click here to email us and request access.


List of project participants

Find here the names of the participants to the project.


Detailed log of the project

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2021-02-10 Meeting ZooSize 1st general meeting.
2021-03-15 Meeting ZooSize 2nd general meeting.
2021-06-08 Meeting ZooSize 3rd general meeting.
2021-09-28 Meeting ZooSize 4th general meeting.
2021-10-09 Meeting Adhoc meeting during GLEON-2021 (online).
2021-10-21 Change Updated the data template. We had some remaining comments that had been resolved but not deleted.
2021-11-20 Change Recommended SOP for measuring zooplankton.
2022-01-25 Meeting ZooSize 5th general meeting - update on the data call, feedback on the SOP, discuss future tasks (QC measurements group, data analysis group). Creation of a poll on use of sample preservative - see the Google Form.
2022-02-22 Change Welcoming Zeynep Ersoy as 4th co-champion!
2022-03-01 Focus group 1st focus group - we established the format for the literature review (Google Sheet)
2022-04-04 Focus group 2nd focus group - we discussed the quality check of the taxa names and stages, and several potential issues surrounding the QCing and data analysis.
2022-05-04 Meeting ZooSize 6th general meeting - updates on: the data call, the preservative survey, the QC’ing of the taxa names, the different ways of measuring zooplankton, the literature review.
2022-06-13 Change New SOP version: v2.0. Previous version 1.1 can be found here.
2022-10-13 Meeting ZooSize 7th general meeting - updates on: the data call, the current data availability (criteria for datasets on number of measurements available, availability of metadata, absence of temperature anomaly), discussion about making a poster for GLEON.
2022-10-30 Conference The ZooSize group prepared a poster for GLEON22 to showcase our progress! You can find the poster here.
2023-07-03 Conference The ZooSize group prepared a poster for SEB23 You can find the poster here.
2023-09-11 to 2023-09-15 Workshop Workshop at the John Wesley Powell Center (Fort Collins, CO, USA) (Maria and Rosalie attended).
2023-11-03 Meeting Feedback on data harmonisation and emails.
2023-12-12 Meeting ZooSize 8th general meeting - updates on: data harmonization and data paper preparation.
2024-07-18 Conference Presentation at the DSOS 2024 summit. Find the presentation here.
2024-09-09 to 2023-09-13 Workshop Workshop at the CESAB (Montpellier, FR) (Zeynep and Rosalie will attend).
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