9bd79172-4804-4a61-9bd4-0e5afc96b86d eng Data curator NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research curator@niwa.co.nz 2010-07-09T13:56:08 ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata 1.1 NZMG New Zealand Map Grid LINZ Land Information New Zealand NZST/NZDT Benthic diatom communities in pristine lakes and tarns, South Island 2004-06-30 Samples were collected in a visiting scientist project (W. Vyverman, K. Saabe; University of Ghent, Belgium), within the FRST-funded freshwater biodiversity programme, in early 2001. All samples were benthic grab samples (composites of several subsamples). A comprehensive suite of environmental data (including water chemistry) was collected at the same time. Identifications were done at the University of Ghent, to genus level except for some probably endemic taxa. Voucher slides of each sample are held in the NIWA diatom collection (slide numbers are the same as the siteID). Samples were analysed by Koenraad Vanhoutte and collected by: Wim Vyverman and Koen Sabbe (University of Gent, Belgium) and Cathy Kilroy (NIWA). Cathy Kilroy NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research +64 9 375 2050 +64 9 375 2051 41 Market Place Auckland Auckland 1010 New Zealand c.kilroy@niwa.co.nz http://www.niwa.co.nz Website of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research, New Zealand - experts in environmental science benthic algae diatom FBIS Public. Non-commercial use only. Please seek approval for commercial use. eng biota South Island and Stewart Island New Zealand 166.789833 173.018106 -46.964986 -41.525473 2001-01-06T00:00:00 2001-03-17T00:00:00 csv 0 http://ei.niwa.co.nz/search/fbis Freshwater Biodiversity data, available through NIWA's Environmental Information Browser, contains fish, algae, aquatic plant and invertebrate data gathered from New Zealand's freshwater streams, rivers and lakes. Raw data, genus level only; coordinates read from maps.