Ross Sea Biodiversity Survey 2004 (BioRoss)

Kevin Mackay1, Kevin Mackay2

1 NIWA, Private Bag 14-901, Kilbirnie, New Zealand; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Kevin Mackay

Received {date}; Revised {date}; Accepted {date}; Published {date}

Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

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.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=mbis_caml

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Ross Sea and Balleny Islands, Southern Ocean
Coordinates: 72°20'34.8''S and 65°24'28.8''S Latitude; 160°52'55.2''E and 173°21'10.8''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 2004

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Ross Sea Biodiversity Survey 2004 (BioRoss)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=mbis_caml
Publication date of data: 2018-08-08
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-04-19
Hierarchy level: Dataset