Description
The survey results from a 2011-2012 macroinvertebrate study in three streams on the island of Kadavu in Fiji are presented here as presence and absence records. This dataset is part of a larger research study in Fiji on the effects of catchment forest cover on the community structure of macroinvertebrates.
Bindiya Rashni, the author of this dataset, compiled these results as part of her Master of Science research at The University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva, Fiji, and was funded under a Graduate Assistant scholarship at the Institute of Applied Science (at USP).
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 18 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.
- Event (core)
- Occurrence
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.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Rashni B (2023): Freshwater macroinvertebrate survey of three streams on the island of Kadavu, Fiji. v1.1. The University of the South Pacific. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=usp_freshwater_kadavubmimsc&v=1.1
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: d115a9a8-3f72-4f00-a2e6-ef1f968ef895. 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; macroinvertebrates; freshwater; Kadavu; Fiji
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Geographic Coverage
The island of Kadavu, Fiji.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-19.207, 177.91], North East [-18.703, 178.635] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Arthropoda, Mollusca, Annelida |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 2011-2012 |
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Project Data
Freshwater biodiversity data is under reported for the Oceanic islands due to lack of trained resident specialists, misreported dataset and or unpublished dataset mostly limited to grey literature. This can be improved by training freshwater project related representatives from targeted Oceania countries for collation and updating of the existing data on GBIF database. The proposed project aims to directly engage the pool of freshwater experts in the Melanesian region to build capacity on regional freshwater biota data updating and mobilization. This will then contribute to inland wetland policy strengthening, national level ramsar commitments, National Biodiversity Strategic Assessment and Planning (NBSAP), Endangered and Protected Species (EPS) ACT Bill, Environment Management Act in Fiji for example, and eventually near future freshwater species and ecosystem Red Listing Assessments. The targeted countries are Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
| Title | Addressing Oceania’s freshwater biodiversity data deficiency by mobilizing Melanesian datasets |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2020-010-REG |
| Funding | European Union. GBIF. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | d115a9a8-3f72-4f00-a2e6-ef1f968ef895 |
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| https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=usp_freshwater_kadavubmimsc |