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International trade in Australian Syngnathid species

Assessment of trade in Australian syngnathids was estimated from semi-structured interviews with traditional medicine merchants and aquarium businesses in Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane. A database of official records of international trade in syngnathids was also sourced from Department of Environment & Heritage (Federal).

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2007-12-04T11:04:00

Principal investigator

Project Seahorse - Martin-Smith, Keith, Dr
Purpose
Estimation of levels of trade in syngnathids to and from Australia.
Credit
Project Seahorse
Credit
Chocolaterie Guylian S.A.
Credit
British Airways Assisting Conservation
Credit
The Community Fund, U.K.
Credit
GlaxoSmithKline
Credit
Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, U.K.
Status
Completed

Principal investigator

Not currently with an organisation - Martin-Smith, Keith, Dr
Topic category
  • Biota

Extent

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Geographic identifier
AUSTRALIA EXCLUDING EXTERNAL TERRITORIES

Title
Marine Community Profile v1.2
Date (Revision)
2006-10-13T00:00:00

Owner

Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility
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Temporal extent

Time period
2001-01-01T00:00:00 2005-12-01T00:00:00
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title
Microsoft Excel (xls)
Date
Edition
2003
Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords v.5.3.8
  • Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish
  • Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Endangered Species
Keywords (Taxon)
  • Syngnathid sp.
  • Seahorse
  • Pipehorse
  • Sea dragons
  • Pipefish
Keywords (Theme)
  • Trade
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC): Fields of Research
  • Freshwater Ecology
  • Population Ecology
  • Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)

Resource constraints

Classification
Restricted

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The data described in this record are the intellectual property of Project Seahorse

Resource constraints

Linkage
http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/au/88x31.png

License Graphic

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia License


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Website
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/

License Text

Other constraints
The citation in a list of references is: citation author name/s (year metadata published), metadata title. Citation author organisation/s. File identifier and Data accessed at (add http link).
Other constraints
Contact researcher for access to the data.

Associated resource

Title
Project Seahorse
Date (Creation)
2011-12-02T00:00:00
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Environment description
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (xls)
Supplemental Information
Martin-Smith, K. M., Lam, T. F.-N., & Lee, S. K.-H. (2003). Trade in pipehorses Solegnathus spp. for traditional medicine in Hong Kong. TRAFFIC Bulletin, 19(3), 85-94. Martin-Smith, K. M., & Vincent, A. C. J. (2006). Exploitation and trade of Australian seahorses, pipehorses, sea dragons and pipefishes (Family Syngnathidae). Oryx, 40, 141-151.

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • Microsoft Excel (xls)

Distributor

Principal investigator

Not currently with an organisation - Martin-Smith, Keith, Dr

Resource lineage

Statement
Database queries from Environment Australia Wildlife Trade Database, trader surveys through structured questionnaires (see Martin-Smith et al., 2003), structured interviews with government officials, NGO representatives, aquarists, fishers (see Martin-Smith & Vincent, 2006).
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
437e3280-a2b0-11dc-aa6f-00188b4c0af8

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - IMAS Data Manager

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/437e3280-a2b0-11dc-aa6f-00188b4c0af8

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2015-08-05T12:38:51
Date info (Revision)
2015-08-05T12:38:51

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3:2018
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

Trade
Global Change Master Directory Earth Science Keywords v.5.3.8
Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Endangered Species Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish

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