Description
From 9th to 12th December 2021 a series of dives were carried out on the outer reef of Aldabra along the north and west sides of the atoll. The purpose was to identify non-cryptic reef fish species between the approximate depths of 10m and 20m at a series of locations specified by Seychelles Island Foundation (SIF) researchers based at Aldabra.
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 695 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:
Downing N, Stobart B, Earl C (2023). Preliminary Report on Check Lists of Reef Fishes at Aldabra, December 2021. Version 2.1. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/fsbkww
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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: 87321281-4bb6-4c43-a0fc-82016e30b5cc. OBIS Secretariat publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Originator
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 |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2021-12-09 / 2021-12-12 |
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Sampling Methods
No Description available
Method step description:
- See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods
Bibliographic Citations
- Downing, Nigel & Stobart, Ben. (2021). Preliminary Report on Check Lists of Reef Fishes at Aldabra, December 2021. Aldabra Marine Programme https://www.aldabra.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Report-on-December-2021-Aldabra-surveys.pdf
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/fsbkww |
| 87321281-4bb6-4c43-a0fc-82016e30b5cc | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=aldabra-downing-stobart-2021 |