This data represents coral reef ecological surveys conducted in the Kingdom of Tonga from 2016-2018. 375 sites were surveyed across the Tongatapu, Ha'apai and Vava'u island groups by Patrick Smallhorn-West, Dr. Daniela Ceccarelli and Karen Stone. All surveys were conducted on SCUBA.
Citation: Smallhorn-West P, Stone K, Ceccarelli D (2022): Tonga reef fish survey data 2016-2018. v1.0. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=tongareefsurvey2016&v=1.0
Published: June 17, 2022 at 03:37
First registration: June 17, 2022 at 03:40
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=tongareefsurvey2016
Contacts:
Patrick Smallhorn-West
Marine Biology and Aquaculture, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
Karen Stone
Vava’u Environmental Protection Agency
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
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| ON_LAND | 426 |
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| DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH | 48 |
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