SiteCode |
Identifier of unique geographical coordinates |
Usually 2–3 letters followed by numeric string |
Site |
Descriptive name of the site |
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SiteLat |
Latitude of site (WGS84) |
Decimal degrees |
SiteLong |
Longitude of site (WGS84) |
Decimal degrees |
Country |
Country (or largely-autonomous state) |
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Ecoregion |
Location within the Marine Ecoregions of the World provided in Spalding et al.13
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Realm |
Biogeographic realm as classified in the Marine Ecoregions of the World13
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SurveyID |
Identifier of individual 50 m transects |
Numeric string |
Depth |
Mean depth of transect line as recorded on dive computer (note: this does not account for tide or deviations from the mean value as a consequence of imperfect tracking of the depth contour along the bottom) |
metres |
SurveyDate |
Date of survey |
(dd-month-yy) |
Diver |
Initials of the diver who collected the datum |
Two to four letter unique identifier |
Taxon |
Species name, corrected for recent taxonomic changes and grouping of records not at species level |
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Family |
Taxonomic family |
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Block |
Identifies which 5 m wide block (of two) within each complete transect (surveyID) |
Values=1 (block on deeper/offshore side of transect line), 2 (block on shallower/inshore side) |
Total |
Total abundance for record on that block, transect, site, date combination |
Numeric string |