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  Physical and Biological Monitoring in Doubtful Sound

This record summarises data from annual biological and continuous physical monitoring in Doubtful Sound.

Temporal coverage: from 1997 (ongoing)

Number of sites: 24 sites in total - 9 physical and 15 biological.

Physical data:The continuous temperature and salinity data are collected every 15 minutes.

The main marine environment sampled: fiord rock walls.

Depth zone: Intertidal and subtidal 0 - 16 m.

Sedimentary type: hard

Community association: rocky reef

Sampling method: Conductivity and temperature sensors, photoquadrats, diver observations.

Parameters collected: Water physical parameters, community and single species data.

Measured variables: Salinity (at 2 or 10 depths), temperature (at 10 depths), invertebrate abundance & diversity, community composition, indicator species (Cnemidocarpa sp., brachiopods, black coral) abundances, echinoderm abundances

Species/community data: Benthic invertebrates, algae. Photographs only.

Other data collection: Soft sediment data collected (only 1 sampling event in 2011). Particle grain size, ash free dry weight, infauna, cockles and pipi size frequency.

This collection is ongoing as part of resource consent requirements.

Quality assurance = unknown.

 
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Credit
Meridian Energy Limited AND Cawthron Insititute
Status
On going

  Principal investigator

Cawthron Institute - Robyn Dunmore; Eric Goodwin  
98 Halifax Street East Nelson 7010 New Zealand

  +64 3 548 2319  
  +64 3 546 9464 
Website
Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute  

Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute

Keywords
  • coastal benthic hard ecological chemistry physical photograph visual observation
Specific usage
MEMP

 

 
Use limitation
Reports are available, but permission for data use is required from Meridian Energy.
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
Description
Fiordland - Doubtful Sound
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2ea6f6e7-52f8-4661-9f0e-5225cdf76988   XML
Date stamp
2012-08-06T11:31:32
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research - Data curator  

 
 

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