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Intertidal (sandy) beach benthic assessments (Southland Region)
Physical and biological monitoring of sandy beaches within the Southland region for Environment Southland. Sampling sites are located on Porpise and Orepuki Beach.
Sampling frequency = annually for 3 years, then 5yearly (Feb).
Sampling began in 2008 and is ongoing.
Number of sites = 2 beaches.
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).
Sampling protocol & QA = External taxonomic identification of infauna (Gary Stevenson of Coastal Marine Ecology Consultants). Basic sediment grain size = 2mm & 63µm sieves, gravimetric (% gravel, sand, and silt) conducted by Hills Laboratories.
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Citation proposal
. Intertidal (sandy) beach benthic assessments (Southland Region). https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/89c3be14-4465-47a2-a997-f01a15eecffb |
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- Date
- Credit
- Environment Southland
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
- Website
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Environment Southland
Link to Environment Southland website
- Keywords
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- marine coastal benthic soft ecological physical visual observation core
- Specific usage
- MEMP
- Use limitation
- Restricted. Permission required (Environment Southland) to access data/reports.
- Access constraints
- Restricted
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Description
- Porpoise Bay and Orepuki Beach
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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 report of fine-scale monitoring at Porpoise Bay
Link to report of fine-scale monitoring at Porpoise Bay
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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No QA procedure mentioned. 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
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 89c3be14-4465-47a2-a997-f01a15eecffb XML
- Hierarchy level name
- Date stamp
- 2012-08-08T12:54:12
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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