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Living marine legacy of Gwaii Haanas. II: Marine invertebrate baseline to 2000 and invertebrate-related management issues
Entry ID: Canada_DFO_GwaiiHaanasInvertebr

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Summary
Abstract: Includes all marine invertebrate species recorded from the intertidal to the
deep-sea and maps their distributions known to the end of 2000. The GIS
contains 25,000 invertebrate records of >2,500 species from 2,900 localities.

The database covers the Haida Gwaii archipelago, including the contiguous
waters of Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait, Queen Charlotte Sound and westward
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: 56.5   S: 49.5   E: -128.0   W: -145.0

Data Set Citation
Dataset Originator/Creator: Sloan, N.A., P.M. Bartier and W.C. Austin
Dataset Title: Living marine legacy of Gwaii Haanas. II: Marine invertebrate baseline to 2000 and invertebrate-related management issues
Dataset Series Name: Parks Canada - Technical Reports in Ecosystem Science
Dataset Release Date: 2001
Dataset Release Place: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Dataset Publisher: Government of Canada, Parks Canada
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1897-01-01
Stop Date: 2000-01-01
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LANDSAT Ancillary Description
SATELLITES Ancillary Description
Quality Please see URL link ('Project summary of Mawson Escarpment satellite image maps').

Data source: Landsat TM scenes (WRS 128-111, 127-112), acquired 18 March 1989 and 8 March 1988 respectively.

Projection and Grid: Transverse Mercator, grid zone 42.

Co-ordinates: Geographical and UTM.

Horizontal datum: World Geodetic System 1984.

Magnetic Variation: 72 degrees west for May 1995, and moves westerly by about 0.1 degree each year.

Nomenclature: Names have been approved by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia.
Access Constraints Contact the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=mawson_n... when using these data.
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Originating Center
AAD
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC
Phone: +61 3 6232 3244
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Distribution
Distribution Media: CD/DVD
Fees: free
Personnel
HENK BROLSMA
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: +61 3 6232 3528
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: mapping at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 1999-10-07
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-06-15

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