Description
Field sampling data of juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks in the Rewa Delta (Fiji) is provided here, for the period 2014 to 2015 only.
This dataset is dedicated to the late Celso Cawich who was instrumental in conducting the entire field sampling for this research.
Research funding was provided by The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Strategic Research Theme (SRT) under the project “Evolutionary Ecogenomics and Conservation of Scalloped Hammerhead Sharks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean: Implications for the Assessment of Non-Detrimental Findings under CITES regulations”, SRT/ 6175-3107-70766-617508, awarded to Ciro Rico, Cara Miller, Susanna Piovano and Celso Cawich. Additional funding was provided through the (then) USP Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment research student grant awarded to Celso Cawich, as well as funding from Projects Abroad and Frontier.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event 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 159 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Rico C, Marie A, Cawich C (2023): Surveys of juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks in the Rewa Delta, Fiji (2014-2015). v1.0. The University of the South Pacific. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=scalloped_hammerhead_rewa&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is The University of the South Pacific. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 539b6767-cc4e-4bda-b0c4-ec9cc297fe86. The University of the South Pacific publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Fiji; scalloped hammerhead shark
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The Rewa River delta (estuary), island of Viti Levu, Fiji.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-18.189, 178.507], North East [-18.132, 178.572] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini.
| Species | Sphyrna lewini |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2014-09-09 / 2015-08-27 |
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Project Data
The main objective of our proposed project is to mobilize natural history (NH) collection data housed in both government and non-government institutions in Fiji. These include collections held at the South Pacific Regional Herbarium and the Discipline of Marine Studies, both located at the University of the South Pacific (hereafter USP), and the Ministries of Forestry and Agriculture. Our project will help promote the incorporation of open-access biodiversity data into decision-making processes and to inform policy, and also raise collective awareness of the importance of collections.
| Title | Mobilizing biodiversity data from natural history collections in Fiji |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2020-006-NAC |
| Funding | European Union. GBIF. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Bibliographic Citations
- Marie, A.D., Miller, C., Cawich, C. Piovano, S. Rico, C. Fisheries-independent surveys identify critical habitats for young scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) in the Rewa Delta, Fiji. Sci Rep 7, 17273 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17152-0 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17152-0
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=scalloped_hammerhead_rewa |
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