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
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 331 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
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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
Rights
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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
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Geographic Coverage
Aldabra Atoll
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-9.507, 46.187], North East [-9.351, 46.538] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Fishes
| Superclass | Agnatha |
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| Unranked | Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes |
Sampling Methods
No Description available
Method step description:
- See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods
Bibliographic Citations
- 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. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 10.25607/l1md8g |
| 9a398265-f0f4-45b1-9069-016fba439e60 | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=aldabra-atoll-friedlander-2015 |