Description
This data represents coral reef ecological surveys conducted in the Kingdom of Tonga from 2016-2018. 375 sites were surveyed across the Tongatapu, Ha'apai and Vava'u island groups by Patrick Smallhorn-West, Dr. Daniela Ceccarelli and Karen Stone. All surveys were conducted on SCUBA.
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 80,990 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Smallhorn-West P, Stone K, Ceccarelli D (2022): Tonga reef fish survey data 2016-2018. v1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=tongareefsurvey2016&v=1.0
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. 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: fa90f9b1-c440-46da-bffe-ac35dda76a9f. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Researcher
- 1 James Cook dr, Townsville, QLD, Australia
- Originator
- Researcher
- Originator
- Researcher
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Author
- 1 James Cook dr, Townsville, QLD, Australia
Geographic Coverage
Tonga
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-21.133, -175.406], North East [-18.158, -173.916] |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2016-07-12 / 2018-11-08 |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Smallhorn-West, Patrick F; Stone, Karen; Ceccarelli, Daniela (2020): Tonga Reef survey data 2016-2018, link to xlsx files. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917680, In: Smallhorn-West, Patrick F; Ceccarelli, Daniela; Stone, Karen (2020): Benthic and reef fish surveys from the Kingdom of Tonga in 2016-2018 (375 sites). PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917698 https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917680
- Smallhorn-West P., Sheehan J., Rodriguez-Troncoso A., Malimali S., Halafihi T., Mailau S., Le’ota A., Ceccarelli D., Stone K., Pressey B., Jones G. (2020) Kingdom of Tonga Special Management Area report 2020. 86 p https://spccfpstore1.blob.core.windows.net/digitallibrary-docs/files/18/1805dd20b9d4a946878e6ec9b1268feb.pdf?sv=2015-12-11&sr=b&sig=A5DCh7JTI%2FbvjEA47Y9ZDiDg5TH%2F1uj04e6DLhBF3s8%3D&se=2022-12-06T04%3A52%3A16Z&sp=r&rscc=public%2C%20max-age%3D864000%2C%20max-stale%3D86400&rsct=application%2Fpdf&rscd=inline%3B%20filename%3D%22Smallhorn_West_20_Tonga_SMA_Report_2020.pdf%22
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Alternative Identifiers | https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=tongareefsurvey2016 |
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