NIWA's Marine Biodata Information System warehouses results from New Zealand's fisheries trawl surveys and decades of marine invertebrate research. Data includes presence records for coralline algae along the coast. This ongoing project continually integrates new marine data for the Southwest Pacific region.
Use Cases
- Model species distribution for fisheries management using trawl survey results and presence data.
- Analyze temporal trends in marine invertebrate populations from multi-decade sampling records.
- Map coastal coralline algae presence data for habitat and biodiversity studies.
Strengths
- Integrates data from a series of research trawl surveys conducted for fisheries management.
- Contains marine invertebrate research sampling records spanning several decades.
- Includes specific presence data for coastal coralline algae.
Limitations
- Specific row counts, column details, and temporal coverage are not provided.
- Geographic coverage is described as a future goal (Antarctica to Fiji) but current extent is unspecified.
- Data is described as a 'work in progress' with ongoing integration, indicating potential incompleteness.
Provenance
- Source
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand.
- Collection Method
- Research trawl surveys for fisheries management and marine invertebrate research sampling.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Primarily New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), with planned coverage for the Southwest Pacific from Antarctica to Fiji.