Waimea Inlet State of the Environment

This record summarises the state of the environment monitoring for Waimea Estuary.Waimea Estuary was one of the estuaries used during the initial development of the Estuary Monitoring Protocol (EMP)

Temporal coverage: from 2011 (ongoing)

Number of sites: 4

Sampling Frequency: 5 yearly

Main marine environment sampled: Estuarine

Depth zone: Intertidal

Sediment type: Soft

Community association: Mudflats

Sampling method: Sediment cores, infauna cores, photos, field observation

Parameters collected: Infauna/epifauna communities, physical parameters, benthic microalgae, benthic macroalgae

Measured variables: epifauna/infauna diversity & abundances Metals, TN, TP, AFDW, Grain-size, Chl-a, , RPD layer, and in 2001 % cover of macroalgae

Species/Community data: Benthic invertebrates, and in 2001 macroalgae (? 0.5 mm)

Other data collected: unknown

Collection: ongoing

Quality assurance: Unknown

 
Citation proposal
. Waimea Inlet State of the Environment. https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/f2ff1c6d-bf10-4b89-8f7b-70587abf36a9
 

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f2ff1c6d-bf10-4b89-8f7b-70587abf36a9   XML
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Metadata language
eng
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Topic category
  • Oceans
 

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Coupled resource
 
 

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Coupled resource
 
 

Keywords

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  • estuarine benthic soft ecological physical chemistry core photograph visual observation
 
 

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Conformity

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No known constraints.
 

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Organisation name
Cawthron Institute
Email
[email protected]
 

Responsible organization (s)

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Organisation name
Cawthron Institute
Email
[email protected]
 

Metadata information

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Organisation name
NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Email
[email protected]
Date stamp
2012-08-10T08:53:27
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UTF8
 
 

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Conformance class 1: invocable

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Access constraints
Limitation
 
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Limitation
 
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Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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