Description
Over the past 20+ years the Cawthron Institute has accumulated a large store of information on the nation-wide distribution of freshwater invertebrates and algae. This dataset covers 20 years worth of macoinvertebrate and algal samples processed by Cawthron for regional councils State of the Environment monitoring, funded research work, resource compliance monitoring surveys, and assessments of environmental effects.
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 54,415 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:
Shearer K (2016): Cawthron Institute freshwater invertebrate data. v1.4. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). Dataset/Occurrence. https://gbifipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=cawthron_invertebrates&v=1.4
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 Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 18d0270e-899b-4a16-82f2-aa87d93bb1df. 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.
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Geographic Coverage
New Zealand
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-46.049, 167.366], North East [-36.24, 177.325] |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 1986-10-01 / 2005-09-30 |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | 18d0270e-899b-4a16-82f2-aa87d93bb1df |
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https://gbifipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=cawthron_invertebrates |