Plankton Toolbox

Plankton Toolbox

The Plankton Toolbox is a free tool for aquatic scientists, and others, working with environmental monitoring related to phyto- and zooplankton.

Features include:

Import phyto- or zooplankton data in .txt and .xlsx files in different formats (configurable)

Work with data on abundance, biovolume and carbon content

Data screening - quality control of data

Aggregate data, e.g. from species level to class level

Plotting tools

Statistics (in early development)

Export data in .txt or .xlsx for further analyses or plotting

A future update with functionality for using Plankton Toolbox as a counting tool by the microscope is planned.

Developed by:

Nordic Microalgae is developed and operated by the Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI http://www.smhi.se/en ) with funding from the Swedish LifeWatch project http://svenskalifewatch.se/.

Technology or platform:

The software is available as version 1.0.0 for Windows and MacOS. Version 1.0.1 is available for Windows. A Linux version will be produced upon request.

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Date ( Publication )
2015-04-09
Status
Completed
Version
1.0
Keywords
marine
Keywords
Plankton
Keywords
Calculation tool
Access constraints
License
Use limitation
MIT
Other constraints
https://github.com/planktontoolbox/plankton-toolbox/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
Point of contact
  Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SMHI) - Nordic Microalgae
 
OnLine resource
Plankton Toolbox Web address ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Plankton Toolbox Code repository ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
Topic Category
Species distribution
Service Category
data processing, data analysis
Service Language
eng
Service TRL
TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment
 

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