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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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. 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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Credit
Environment Southland
Status
On going

  Point of contact

Environment Southland - Greg Larkin ( )  
Corner of North Road and Price Street, Waikiwi Invercargill 9810 New Zealand

  +64 3 2115115 or 0800 768845 (within New Zealand)  
  +64 3 2115252 
Website
Environment Southland  

Link to Environment Southland website

Keywords
  • 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
  • Environment
Description
Porpoise Bay and Orepuki Beach
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OnLine resource
Point of truth URL of this metadata record  

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

OnLine resource
Link to report of fine-scale monitoring at Porpoise Bay  

Link to report of fine-scale monitoring at Porpoise Bay

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Dataset
Statement

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

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89c3be14-4465-47a2-a997-f01a15eecffb   XML
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Date stamp
2012-08-08T12:54:12
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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