Occurrence

Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles: Fishes Checklist

Latest version published by OBIS Secretariat on 19 September 2023 OBIS Secretariat
Publication date:
19 September 2023
Published by:
OBIS Secretariat
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

We conducted in situ surveys of fishes, corals, and other components of the reef community at 39 locations, in more than 200 hours of scientific diving. We recorded a total of 332 fish species during our expedition. Fish biomass averaged over 4 tonnes per hectare and was dominated by large groupers and trevally (jacks).

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Friedlander A, Ballesteros E, Beets J, Brown E, Fay M, Haupt P, Henning B, Rose P, Sala E, Earl C (2023). Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles: Fishes Checklist. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/l1md8g

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS Secretariat. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9a398265-f0f4-45b1-9069-016fba439e60.  OBIS Secretariat publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Alan Friedlander
  • Originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society
Enric Ballesteros
  • Originator
Centre d’Estudis Avançats de Blanes-CSIC
Jim Beets
  • Originator
University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
Eric Brown
  • Originator
US National Park Service, Kalaupapa National Historical Park
Michael Fay
  • Originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society
Philip Haupt
  • Originator
Seychelles Islands Foundation
Brad Henning
  • Originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society
Paul Rose
  • Originator
Royal Geographical Society
Enric Sala
  • Originator
Pristine Seas, National Geographic Society
Chandra Earl
  • Metadata Provider
  • Processor
eDNA Scientific Officer
OBIS Secretariat
  • Point Of Contact
Secretariat

Geographic Coverage

Aldabra Atoll

Bounding Coordinates South West [-9.507, 46.187], North East [-9.351, 46.538]

Taxonomic Coverage

Fishes

Superclass Agnatha
Unranked Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Friedlander AM, Ballesteros E, Beets J, Brown EK, Fay JM, Haupt P, Henning B, Rose P, Sala E. 2015. Biodiversity and ecosystem health of the Aldabra Group, southern Seychelles: Scientific report to the government of Seychelles. National Geographic Pristine Seas. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.14095.69282

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.
Alternative Identifiers 10.25607/l1md8g
9a398265-f0f4-45b1-9069-016fba439e60
https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=aldabra-atoll-friedlander-2015