Monitoring of reef fish abundance in the Tsitsikamma National Park using stereo-BRUVs

Sampling event
Latest version published by The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity on Jan 2, 2020 The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

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Description

Stereo-BRUVs were deployed in Tsitsikamma National Park to monitor reef fish abundance and measure fish lengths. The resultant records of sampling events, underwater videos, fish occurrences and fish lengths constitute this dataset. Videos were analysed using EventMeasure (SeaGIS) to record MaxN and length values. See Bernard et al. (2014). DwC Event Core: A parent sampling event represents an event that took place at a named location, where a number of child sampling events (videos) were undertaken. DwC Occurrence Extension: An occurrence record represents a species observed in a particular 60-minute video, specifically the MaxN, or largest number of individuals of this species observed in a single frame. DwC Extended Measurement or Fact Extension: Each record represents an individual fish, specifically the individual's length as measured using EventMeasure. DwC Audubon Media Description: Each record represents a child sampling event's video file (video files are not available online but can be requested).

Data Records

The data in this sampling event 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 187 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
187
Occurrence 
1442

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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Bernard A (2019): Monitoring of reef fish abundance in the Tsitsikamma National Park using stereo-BRUVs. v1.10. The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.saiab.ac.za/resource?r=tistsi&v=1.10

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0324faa2-894d-459c-b86a-bda617ef0690.  The South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by South African Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Anthony Bernard
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Somerset Street
6139 Grahamstown
Eastern Cape
ZA
+27 46 603 5842
Willem Coetzer
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
Biodiversity Information Manager
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Somerset Street
6139 Grahamstown
Eastern Cape
ZA
+27 46 603 5841

Geographic Coverage

No Description available

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Bernard, A.T.F., Götz, A., Parker, D., Heyns, E.R., Halse, S.J., Riddin, N.A., Smith, M.K.S., Paterson, A.W., Winker, H., Fullwood, Langois, T.J., L.Harvey, E.S. 2014. New possibilities for research on reef fish across the continental shelf of South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 110(9–10), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1590/sajs.2014/a0079

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 0324faa2-894d-459c-b86a-bda617ef0690
http://ipt.saiab.ac.za/resource?r=tistsi