Tonga Island Marine Reserve

Located in the Nelson-Marlborough Conservancy, this marine reserve was established in 1994. An initial baseline habitat survey was completed at this reserve.

Monitoring at this reserve targets intertidal reef communities (monitoring rocky intertidal communities occurring on rocky reefs, boulder reefs); subtidal soft sediment benthic communities (monitoring the abundance and population size structure of invertebrates, algal communities and other selected key species occurring on soft substrate (unconsolidated) - mud, sand, gravels, cobbles in coastal or estuarine environments); subtidal reef benthic communities and key species (monitoring the abundance and population size structure of mobile invertebrates, sessile invertebrates, algal communities and other selected key species (e.g. paua, kina) occurring on rocky reefs, boulder reefs, biogenic reefs) and subtidal reef fish species associated with rocky reefs, boulders and biogenic reefs. In addition, monitoring surveys are conducted specifically targeting rock lobster and blue cod. Habitat surveys were conducted after the initial baseline survey.

Sampling frequency = irregular.

Depths sampled: 0-30 m

Methods used to collect data:UVC, BUV, photograph, transect, Pot

 
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. Tonga Island Marine Reserve. https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/api/records/cac23003-bad4-43f2-b533-684319a8a101
 

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cac23003-bad4-43f2-b533-684319a8a101   XML
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL
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eng
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  • Oceans
 

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  • marine coastal estuarine benthic soft benthic hard ecological BUV photograph
 
 

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Geographic data projection: WGS84 (LINZ) . Represented in ArcGIS.

Origin from which minimum and maximum depth values are measured: coastal bathymetry shape file (NZTM)

Limitation: irregular sampling

 

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Department of Conservation
Email
[email protected]
 

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Department of Conservation
Email
[email protected]
 

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NIWA National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Email
[email protected]
Date stamp
2012-08-09T11:46:30
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Limitation
 
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Conformance class 3: harmonized

 
 

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