Description
The “Saving Philippine Reefs” research team made a comprehensive coral reef survey in Tubbataha on April 21-27, 2018, the results of which are summarized in this report. The surveys covered seven selected coral reef sites in the Tubbataha Park that have been visited and revisited for data collection for three decades.
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 2,236 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:
White A T, Stockwell B, Apurado J, White E, Sabonsolin A, Lozada A, Earl C (2023). 2018 Saving Philippine Reefs: A Coral Reef Monitoring Expedition to Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Philippines April 21-27, 2018. Version 2.0. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/jaqexe
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: 277f0366-569a-434c-be2e-991140205ece. OBIS Secretariat publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [8.693, 119.763], North East [9.101, 120.056] |
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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
- White, A.T., B. Stockwell, J. Apurado, E. White., A. Sabonsolin, and A.J. Lozada. 2018. A Coral Reef Monitoring Expedition to Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, Philippines April 21-27, 2018.The Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation, Inc., Cebu City, 86 p.
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/jaqexe |
| 277f0366-569a-434c-be2e-991140205ece | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=tubbataha-white-2019 |