{
  "name": "Bench card: Plankton",
  "desc": "Bench card for plankton as an ecological group: the kinds of organisms covered, their size range, where they live and how they are seen",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Ants, Cells & Atoms",
  "url": "https://antscellsandatoms.com/microscopic-life/plankton/",
  "from": [
    "values typed from the sources listed in data_credit"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Ants, Cells & Atoms from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "Definition and habitats: National Ocean Service (NOAA), \"What are plankton?\", https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/plankton.html, US government work, retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "Size range: Hirata T et al. 2011, Biogeosciences 8:311, CC BY 3.0, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-8-311-2011; Villanueva AA, Priya S 2014, PLoS ONE 9:e115220, CC BY 4.0, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115220, retrieved 2026-10-24",
    "GBIF Secretariat 2023, GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei, CC BY 4.0, accessed via api.gbif.org on 2026-10-24"
  ]
}