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Overview:
The Coordinated Waterbird Count Project monitors South Africa's waterbird populations and the conditions of the wetlands which are important for waterbirds. The species ocurence data are available at OBIS. The OBIS compiled data includes species name, individual count, lat/lon, and some environmental correlates like depth and salinity.
Dataset Location: OBIS South African Waterbird Counts
Direct Download: OBIS South African Waterbird Counts
Site Location: TX, MS, AL, FL Coast, Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf
Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes
Timespan: 1974 - 1978
Sampling Frequency:
Data Collection Summary / Methods:
Data collected: species id, location
OBIS data schema: species name, individual count, date, location, temperature, depth, salinity, nitrogen, oxygen, silicate.
Known Issues: The project was launched in 1992 but records go back to 1983.
Best Practices: tips for separating the wheat from the chaff
Conditions for use: 'freely available' and 'open-access' as per OBIS: http://iobis.org/about/vision
Citation/ Distributing Authors: US National Oceanographic Data Center. 2011. South TX Outer Continental Shelf and MI, AL, and FL Outer Continental Shelf benthic organism sampling 1974-1978. US National Oceanographic Data Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/.
Supplemental resources:
Available via the EcoData Retriever: No