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  Waimea Inlet State of the Environment

This record summarises the state of the environment monitoring for Waimea Estuary.Waimea Estuary was one of the estuaries used during the initial development of the Estuary Monitoring Protocol (EMP)

Temporal coverage: from 2011 (ongoing)

Number of sites: 4

Sampling Frequency: 5 yearly

Main marine environment sampled: Estuarine

Depth zone: Intertidal

Sediment type: Soft

Community association: Mudflats

Sampling method: Sediment cores, infauna cores, photos, field observation

Parameters collected: Infauna/epifauna communities, physical parameters, benthic microalgae, benthic macroalgae

Measured variables: epifauna/infauna diversity & abundances Metals, TN, TP, AFDW, Grain-size, Chl-a, , RPD layer, and in 2001 % cover of macroalgae

Species/Community data: Benthic invertebrates, and in 2001 macroalgae (? 0.5 mm)

Other data collected: unknown

Collection: ongoing

Quality assurance: Unknown

 
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Tasman District Council AND Cawthron Institute

 

Cawthron Institute - Paul Gillespie  
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
  • estuarine benthic soft ecological physical chemistry core photograph visual observation
Specific usage
MEMP

 

 
Use limitation
No known constraints.
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
Description
Waimea Estuary
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f2ff1c6d-bf10-4b89-8f7b-70587abf36a9   XML
Date stamp
2012-08-10T08:53:27
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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