LTER Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy) marine data from 1965 to 2015

The present database contains observations for 21 parameters of abiotic, phyto and zooplankton data collected in the Northern Adriatic Sea region (Italy). It relies on a Comma Separated Values file and it is composed by 108687 records. Due to its long temporal coverage, it is classifiable as Long Term Ecological data. Due to the long temporal coverage, the great part of parameters changed collection and analysis method in time. These variations are reported in the database. A long term database can be useful for multiple purposes. This database has been released under a research project focused on Open Science principles application to marine ecology, it is also deposited in B2Share repository (https://b2share.fz-juelich.de/records/f772ed02dcd1403a86fac5a6a19005ef) and metadata are available in DEIMS-SDR (Dynamic Ecological Information Management System - Site and dataset registry, https://deims.org/dataset/38d604ef-decb-4d67-8ac3-cc843d10d3ef). A datapaper, discussing methods, results and describing data is under discussion on Earth System Science Data (https://www.earth-syst-sci-data-discuss.net/essd-2019-111/)