Wetland Invertebrate and Environmental Data 2010

Freshwater invertebrates collected semi-quantitatively from wetlands (e.g. bogs, fens, swamps) below an altitude of 250 m, and which are subject to a range of anthropogenic pressures (i.e. relatively pristine to heavily impacted). At the scale of each wetland, environmental information was collected; then, within each wetland an average of 3 (but up to 6) different water bodies (i.e. sites) were sampled with water quality parameters measured at each site; and at each site, two 'replicate' invertebrate samples were collected (i.e. A and B samples).

(2010) . Wetland Invertebrate and Environmental Data 2010. https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/b750e8ee-0aab-4a9d-8796-05803056a87a

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Date ( publication ): 2010-07-21

Credit: TFBIS fund (Project 213); DoC (Project 3695; Biodiversity of Lowland Wetlands); FRST (Contract C09X0508, Maintaining and Restoring Wetlands); Envirolink fund (ESRC 225 and 762-WCRC67); Environment Canterbury and Environment Southland; Landowners throughout New Zealand.

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invertebrate wetland FBIS

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Spatial representation type: vector

Metadata language used: eng

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biota

Description: New Zealand

Begin date: 2003-11-01T00:00:00

End date: 2009-03-12T00:00:00

Quality: Completeness

Quality: Attribute Accuracy

Quality: Logical Consistency

Quality: Positional Accuracy

Lineage: Invertebrates were collected with a standardised technique (two-minute sweep net) to estimate relative abundance. Consistent taxonomic identification was to lowest practicable level. Spatial locations derived using GPS in the field at each location.

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