Marine biological observation data from coastal and offshore surveys around New Zealand

Kevin Mackay1

1 NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand

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

SWPRON (2014). Marine biological observation data from coastal and offshore surveys around New Zealand. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand, 9092 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=mbis_nz released on January 16, 2018.

Abstract

Occurrence details of New Zealand marine fauna and flora from around the coastline and offshore. Information is assimilated from a variety of sources including unpublished data sets and digitised from journal articles. Where the source is from a published paper the source paper citation is listed at the record level.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

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

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: South western Pacific Ocean, including the New Zealand region
Coordinates: 75°0'0''S and 22°16'1.2''S Latitude; 160°0'0''W and 95°42'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 23, 1873 - May 30, 2014

Methods

Method step description: Data was then assimilated from digital and non digital sources (such as journal publications, reports, work sheets) into a central dataset.
Study extent description: Marine species occurrence data collated from research events along the coast and in New Zealand waters.
Sampling description: Biological data was sampled in-situ using a variety of equipment such as  trawls, pots, grabs, dredges, and beach surveys.
Quality control description: The scientific names have been mapped to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), using the online taxon match tool.
All sampling locations have been plotted on a map to perform a visual check. The most important check would be to see if all sampling locations are (1) in the marine and/or brackish environment and (2) within the described sampling area.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Marine biological observation data from coastal and offshore surveys around New Zealand
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=mbis_nz
Publication date of data: 2019-01-27
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-06-16
Hierarchy level: Dataset