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Sandy Beach Monitoring (Greater Wellington Region)
Physical and biological monitoring of sandy beaches within the Greater Wellington region for Greater Wellington Regional Council.
Sampling sites are located on an eastern Wairarapa beach near Castlepoint.
Sampling frequency = annually for the first 3 years then 5yearly (Jan/Feb/Mar).
Sampling began in 2008 and is ongoing.
Number of sites = 2 total on 1 beach.
Extent of site = 2 transects spaced 50m apart spanning from high to low water marks.
Number of replicates = 2 transects per site, 6 stations per transect, 3 replicate infaunal cores per station.
Measured variables = Infaunal communities using 1mm mesh (species identified to lowest taxonomic level possible and enumerated).
Sediment characteristics: grain size, redox (in field) and salinity.
Sampling protocol & QA = Protocol similar to Aerts et al. (2004). External taxonomic identification of infauna.
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. Sandy Beach Monitoring (Greater Wellington Region). https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/28958ea0-bbeb-41dd-844d-5e16bf7f703d |
Simple
- Date
- Credit
- Greater Wellington Regional Council
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Website
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Greater Wellington Regional Council
Link to the Greater Wellington Regional Council website
- Keywords
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- marine coastal benthic soft ecological physical visual observation core
- Specific usage
- MEMP
- Use limitation
- Restricted. Permission required from the Greater Wellington Regional Council to release data/reports.
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Description
- Castlepoint
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- OnLine resource
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- OnLine resource
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Link to reports available at the GWRC website
Link to reports available at the GWRC website
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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Temporal data were in NZST.
Data collection information: Infaunal core = 330mm x 150mm square stainless steel box corer (0.1089m2), Seive mesh = 1mm, sediment sample = top 20mm surface sediment collected
Limitation: No QA procedure mentioned
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 28958ea0-bbeb-41dd-844d-5e16bf7f703d XML
- Date stamp
- 2012-08-07T19:36:01
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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