Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve

Located in the Northland Conservancy, this marine reserve was established in 1981. A initial baseline habitat survey was completed.

Monitoring at this reserve targets subtidal reef benthic communities and key species (abundance and population size structure of mobile invertebrates, sessile invertebrates, algal communities and other selected key species (e.g. paua, kina) occurring on rocky reefs, boulder reefs, biogenic reefs) and subtidal fish species associated with rocky reefs, boulder reefs, biogenic reefs.

Sampling frequency = irregular.

Depths sampled: 0-130 m

Methods used to collect data: UVC, BUV, photograph

 
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. Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve. https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/fc22733e-61ac-434f-8b42-3ec222159de4
 

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Department of Conservation (DOC)

 

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Link to the DOC website  

Link to the DOC website

Keywords
  • marine estuarine coastal benthic hard ecological BUV photograph
Specific usage
MEMP

 

Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
Description
Poor Knights Islands
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record  

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

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Statement

Quality assurance was imposed on methods.

Geographic data projection: WGS84 (LINZ) . Represented in ArcGIS.

Origin from which minimum and maximum depth values are measured: coastal bathymetry shape file (NZTM).

Limitation: irregular sampling

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fc22733e-61ac-434f-8b42-3ec222159de4   XML
Date stamp
2012-08-08T16:42:22
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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