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Kraan, Casper; Greenfield, Barry L; Thrush, Simon F (2019): Multi-scale data on intertidal macrobenthic biodiversity and environmental features in Kaipara, Tauranga, and Manukau Harbours, New Zealand [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903448

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Abstract:
Within the project Spatial Organization of Species Distributions: Hierarchical and Scale-Dependent Patterns and Processes in Coastal Seascapes at the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand we collected multi-scale (30cm to 1km) and high resolution data (3 x 400 cores) on macrobenthic biodiversity (146 species), i.e. bivalves, polychaetes and crustaceans (> 500μm) that live hidden in marine sandflats, and point measurements of important environmental variables (3 x 320 samples), i.e. sediment grain-size distributions measured with a Malvern Mastersizer, chlorophyll a concentrations measured by a fluorometer, and visible sandflat parameters whose coverage was estimated from photos, in three large intertidal Harbours (Kaipara, Tauranga and Manukau). In each Harbour we sampled 400 points for macrobenthic community composition and abundances, as well as the full set of environmental variables, covering spatial scales of a few centimetres to a maximal extent of 1 km. The six tables can be joined by the field "label[ID]", whereas the field [species_abbreviation] can be linked to the species-list (Table 1) to obtain the full scientific name.
Keyword(s):
Biodiversity; Chlorophyll a; intertidal; Macrobenthos; multi-scale; New Zealand; sediment grain-size distributions; spatial
Related to:
Douglas, Emily J; Pilditch, Conrad A; Kraan, Casper; Schipper, Louis A; Lohrer, Andrew; Thrush, Simon F (2017): Macrofaunal functional diversity provides resilience to nutrient enrichment in coastal sediments. Ecosystems, 20(7), 1324-1336, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-017-0113-4
Greenfield, Barry L; Kraan, Casper; Pilditch, Conrad A; Thrush, Simon F (2016): Mapping functional groups can provide insight into ecosystem functioning and potential resilience of intertidal sandflats. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 548, 1-10, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11692
Kraan, Casper; Dormann, Carsten F; Greenfield, Barry L; Thrush, Simon F (2015): Cross-scale variation in biodiversity-Environment links illustrated by coastal sandflat communities. PLoS ONE, 10(11), e0142411, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0142411
Thrush, Simon F; Hewitt, Judi E; Kraan, Casper; Lohrer, Andrew; Pilditch, Conrad A; Douglas, Emily J (2017): Changes in the location of biodiversity–ecosystem function hot spots across the seafloor landscape with increasing sediment nutrient loading. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 284(1852), 20162861, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2861
Project(s):
Functional Ecology @ AWI (AWI_FuncEco)
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -36.942730 * Median Longitude: 175.093428 * South-bound Latitude: -37.466610 * West-bound Longitude: 174.292343 * North-bound Latitude: -36.390236 * East-bound Longitude: 175.955276
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Size:
6 datasets

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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. Kraan, C; Greenfield, BL; Thrush, SF (2019): (Table 1) Macrobenthic species-list in Kaipara, Tauranga, and Manukau Harbours, New Zealand (2012). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903331
  2. Kraan, C; Greenfield, BL; Thrush, SF (2019): (Table 2) Sediment measurements in Kaipara, Tauranga, and Manukau Harbours, New Zealand (2012). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903339
  3. Kraan, C; Greenfield, BL; Thrush, SF (2019): (Table 3) Sampling locations and visible sandflat parameters in Kaipara, Tauranga, and Manukau Harbours, New Zealand (2012). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903386
  4. Kraan, C; Greenfield, BL; Thrush, SF (2019): (Table 4) Chlorophyll a concentrations in Kaipara, Tauranga, and Manukau Harbours, New Zealand (2012). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903387
  5. Kraan, C; Greenfield, BL; Thrush, SF (2019): (Table 5) Measured bivalve-sizes in Kaipara, Tauranga, and Manukau Harbours, New Zealand (2012). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903390
  6. Kraan, C; Greenfield, BL; Thrush, SF (2019): (Table 6) Abundance of macrobenthic fauna in Kaipara, Tauranga, and Manukau Harbours, New Zealand (2012). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.903443