Name: Macquarie Island Stream Invertebrate surveys; established 1992
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Keywords: EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,ECOSYSTEMS,FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS,RIVERS/STREAM,EARTH SCIENCE,TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE,SURFACE WATER,SURFACE WATER FEATURES,RIVERS/STREAMS,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION,ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES,EARTH SCIENCE,BIOSPHERE,ECOSYSTEMS,FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS,RIVERS/STREAM,PERENNIAL STREAM/RIVER,OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND,GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR,MICROSCOPES,MICROSCOPES,AWQT,Apparatus for Water Quality Test,[object Object],STREAM

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Citation: Wasley, J., Marchant, R. and Kefford, B. (2023) Macquarie Island Stream Invertebrate surveys; established 1992, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/AAS_2918_Macquarie_Island_Stream_Invertebrates, Accessed: 2026-09-17
Title: Macquarie Island Stream Invertebrate surveys; established 1992
Data Centre: Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date: 2023-08-17
Revision Date: 2025-04-15
Parent record: None
Child record: AAS_2918_Site_Photos
AAS_2918_Taxa_DataSheets
AAS_3261
AAS_4305_Stream_Invertebrates_2016
ASAC_2918
ASAC_555

Datasets and documents

Description

This is a parent metadata record. See the child records for access to the data.

This parent record pulls together a body of work that has periodically surveyed Macquarie Island stream invertebrate communities (and associated water quality measurements) at a series of sites originally established in 1992 by Dr. Richard Marchant (Museums Victoria) under ASAC_555. Subsequent surveys were coordinated by Ben Kefford (University of Canberra) and carried out in 2008 (ASAC_2918; Nugegoda), 2010 (AAS_3261; Kefford) and 2016 (AAS_4305; Shaw), with support provided by AAD staff including Jane Wasley and Cath King. See child records for further study details.

Purpose

Parent record to collate othewise disparate child data records.

Quality

See the child records for information specific to each dataset.

Access

These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL and via the child records.

Temporal Coverages

Start date: 1992-01-01 - Stop date: 2016-12-31

Spatial Coverages

Latitude

Northernmost:
Southernmost:

Longitude

Westernmost:
Easternmost:

Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > RIVERS/STREAM
EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > SURFACE WATER FEATURES > RIVERS/STREAMS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS > RIVERS/STREAM

Additional Keywords

STREAM

Locations

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Platforms

FIELD SURVEYS

Instruments

MICROSCOPES
Apparatus for Water Quality Test

Researchers

wasley, jane (TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
marchant, richard (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
kefford, ben (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)

Use Constraints

This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_2918_Macquarie_Island_Stream_Invertebrates when using these data.

Metadata details

AAS_2918_Macquarie_Island_Stream_Invertebrates