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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Citation proposal
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- Date
- Credit
- Meridian Energy Limited AND Cawthron Insititute
- Status
- On going
Principal investigator
- Website
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Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute
Link to the website of the Cawthron Institute
- Keywords
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- 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
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- Biota
- Environment
- Description
- Fiordland - Doubtful Sound
- OnLine resource
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Point of truth URL of this metadata record
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 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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