Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC

oai:digital.csic.es:10261/236021

FORCLIM-7 Cruise (29SG20090401) carried out on the Research Vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa in 2009, The objective is to achieve a significant improvement in markers of palaeoclimate, athorough study of the ecology of these ecosystems in ogan current Gulf of Biscay, in combination with modeling. A surface-tethered drifting cone-shaped type PPS-5 Technicap sediment trap with a circular 1 m2 opening, and an 8 mm baffle-grid, was deployed for three consecutive times between April 7 and 19, 2009, to sample the flux of planktic foraminifer tests over a spring phytoplankton bloom in the central Bay of Biscay