MarBEF

South Western Pacific Regional OBIS Data provider for the NIWA Marine Biodata Information System

Citation

Some or all of the data described in this dataset were produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), http://www.epa.gov/emap/. https://doi.org/10.15468/zuuiyu

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Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

As at November 2005, this is a work in progress - data is being compiled and added to the NIWA Marine Biodiversity Information System (MBIS - a data warehouse). more

The data will cover an area from Antarctica to Fiji. Data so far available are primarily the results of a series of research trawl surveys carried out as part of New Zealand's Ministry of Fisheries data collection to support fisheries management within the NZ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), plus data from several decades of marine invertebrate research sampling in the NZ Exclusive Economic Zone.

Scope

Themes:

Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Biology > Invertebrates

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Biodiversity, Biomass, Fish, Marine environment, Marine invertebrates, Antarctica, Fiji, New Zealand, Pacific Ocean I., PSE, Tasman Sea, Southern Hemisphere Oceans

Geographical coverage

Antarctica [Marine Regions]

Fiji [Marine Regions]

New Zealand [Marine Regions]

Pacific Ocean I.

PSE, Tasman Sea [Marine Regions]

Southern Hemisphere Oceans

Contributors

National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research; Wellington, more, data creator, data manager

Robertson, Don
Massey, Steve

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