Ross Sea Biodiversity Survey 2004 (BioRoss)

Occurrence
Latest version published by The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) on Aug 8, 2018 The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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Description

Marine biological data from the 2004 voyage of the R/V Tangaroa (TAN0402) to the Ross Sea, Antarctica. The main objective of the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries project (BioRoss) was to carry out a quantitative survey of the biodiversity of selected marine communities in the Ross Sea region, including the Balleny Islands.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 4,092 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

NIWA (2014). 2004 Ross Sea Biodiversity Survey (BIOROSS) data. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 4093 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=mbis_caml released on June 18, 2014.

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 03e5566b-7802-45cc-a1be-bac840e2a133.  The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF New Zealand.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation

Contacts

Kevin Mackay
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • User
  • Point Of Contact
Marine Data Manager
NIWA
Private Bag 14-901
Kilbirnie
Wellington
NZ

Geographic Coverage

Ross Sea and Balleny Islands, Southern Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-72.343, 160.882], North East [-65.408, 173.353]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date 2004-01-01

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers 03e5566b-7802-45cc-a1be-bac840e2a133
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=mbis_caml