Florida Reef Fish Visual Census 1986 Species Site Matrix (NODC Accession 0001394)

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Resource language:  eng; USA

Resource progress code:  completed

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NOAA makes no warranty regarding these data, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty. NOAA and SEFSC cannot assume liability for any damages caused by any errors or omissions in these data, nor as a result of the failure of these data to function on a particular system.

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Use Constraints: Dataset credit required. The NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center and/or the National Oceanographic Data Center would appreciate recognition as the resource from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these data.

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Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: Microsoft Windows 2000 Version 5.0 (Build 2195) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 8.1.0.642

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Files 1979-98_Site-Bottom-Species_Matrix5-dbf.doc (MSWord) and Species.dbf are included as part of this data set in addition to Arcview-specific (.shp, .shx,) and shape files. For correct display, .dbf, .shx, .shp files are used in conjunction with Arcview (ESRI) or compatible software. The supplemental files and the NOAA Technical Memorandum 427 Baseline Data for Evaluating Reef Fish Populations in the Florida Keys, 1979-1998 (TM427.pdf) are available in the in this directory http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/archive/arc0001/0001394/01-version/data/0-data/ Definition of fields in species.dbf (table) accessible with spreadsheet software. CODE - Species code in the data table. It is composed of the first 3 letters of the genus and the first 4 letters of the species separated by a space. SCIENTIFIC- Scientific name of the fish species. COMMON- Common name of the fish species. FAMILY- Scientific name of the fish family. COMMONFAM- Common name of the fish family. FAM_ORD- Phyletic sequence of the fish family based on literature. Values are codes that represent the levels of evolutionary development of the family. The higher level of evolutionary development (more advanced), the higher value in the numeric code. The lower level of evolutionary development (more primitive), the lower value in the numeric code. Robins, C. R., R. M. Bailey, C. E. Bond, J. R. Brooker, E. A. Lachner, R. N. Lea, and W. B. Scott, 1991. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 20, 183p. MIN_SIZE- Minimum size (diver observable) of the fish based on literature. MAX_SIZE- Maximum size of the fish based on literature. PREDATOR- "P" denotes the predator status of the fish based on literature. Resource Description: Florida Reef Fish Visual Census 1978-1998 Matrix

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NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center

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individual Name Doug Harper

position Name Scientist

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Voice 305-361-4257

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NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL, 33149 Country U.S.A.

electronic Mail Address Doug.Harper@noaa.gov

hoursOfService 9:00AM-5:00 PM EST, Monday - Friday

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