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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Citation proposal
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- Date
- Credit
- Tasman District Council AND Cawthron Institute
- 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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- 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
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- Oceans
- Description
- Waimea Estuary
- 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
- 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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