Realm: Marine
Climate: Temperate
Biome: Temperate shelf and seas ecoregions
Central latitude: -39.371733
Central longitude: 3.081897
Duration: 44 years, from 1956 to 2003

2253 records

156 distinct species

Across the time series Psilaster acuminatus is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

NIWA's (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research - New Zealand) MBIS (Marine Biodata Information System) database is a data warehouse of marine data that is used. among other things. to serve South West Pacific (including New Zealand) regional marine data to OBIS. and to serve the South West Pacific Regional OBIS Node data. The MBIS dataset is. and will continue to be a work in progress because new data are continually being added as they are discovered. provided. integrated or created. MBIS currently contains data that are primarily the results of a series of research trawl surveys carried out as part of New Zealand's MFish (Ministry of Fisheries) data collection to support fisheries management within the NZ EEZ (New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone). plus data from several decades of marine invertebrate research sampling in the NZ EEZ. MBIS also contains presence data for coralline algae around the New Zealand coast. The South Western Pacific data accessible to OBIS via this RON will eventually cover an area from Antarctica to Fiji. and from the mid Tasman Sea to the mid-Pacific Ocean. Whether these are all served by MBIS or by other providers has yet to be determined. Unit of abundance = IndCountInt, Unit of biomass = NA

Citation(s)

"South TX Outer Continental Shelf and MI, AL, and FL Outer Continental Shelf benthic organism sampling 1974-1978". US National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (2011). Available at http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/data_search_and_access/participants.html, accessed 2012.