Description
We created a database of 3,902 records of high southern latitude intertidal occurrences for 1,416 species/taxa, verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS Editorial Board 2015), from 229 locations (Figure 1). Records date back to 1897. The majority of data came from published manuscripts and additional digital records from Smithsonian Antarctic Invertebrates (http://invertebrates.si.edu/antiz/) and for South Africa, Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA) from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (Rigby et al., 2005). A record was considered to be intertidal if it was found between the high tide mark down to a maximum of 3m depth (allowing for variable tidal range in Antarctica).
Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 3,902 records.
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:
Griffiths & Waller (In Press) The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities. Journal of Biogeography
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6bf0f3b3-053d-435d-ac96-1074625b937c. Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.
Keywords
Occurrence Molluscs Kelp Intertidal Beach Southern Ocean; VEGETATION COASTAL HABITAT SOUTHERN OCEAN ANTARCTICA
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Intertidal records from the Southern Ocean
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-79.08, -180], North East [-39.21, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Animalia, Plantae |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1897-01-01 / 2014-01-01 |
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Project Data
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| Title | The First Comprehensive Description of the Biodiversity and Biogeography of Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Intertidal Communities |
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| Funding | This work was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council through the British Antarctic Survey |
| Study Area Description | In this study we examine all available whole community intertidal records from the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic (following the geographic definitions used by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Biogeographic Atlas). All islands south of the Polar Front are considered to be Antarctic (Bouvet Island, South Georgia, South Orkney Islands, South Sandwich Islands, South Shetland Islands) as described in Linse et al. (2006). All other islands within the influence of the Circumpolar Current are regarded as Sub-Antarctic (Figure 1). |
| Design Description | The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa. We compiled data for comparison from southern South America, the Falkland Islands, Tristan da Cunha, South Africa, Tasmania and southern New Zealand, although data from these comparison regions are not exhaustive. |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa.
| Study Extent | In this study we examine all available whole community intertidal records from the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic (following the geographic definitions used by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Biogeographic Atlas). All islands south of the Polar Front are considered to be Antarctic (Bouvet Island, South Georgia, South Orkney Islands, South Sandwich Islands, South Shetland Islands) as described in Linse et al. (2006). All other islands within the influence of the Circumpolar Current are regarded as Sub-Antarctic (Figure 1). |
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Method step description:
- The database was compiled from studies of the ecology or whole communities of localities and avoiding studies that only targeted single species or taxa.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | BAS_Intertidal |
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| Collection Identifier | BAS_Intertidal |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not Applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | No treatment |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | 6bf0f3b3-053d-435d-ac96-1074625b937c |
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| http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=bas_intertidal |