Eastern Brazil Marine Ecoregion Coastal Habitats - Espirito Santo - Brazil

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Basic Information
Site Name
Eastern Brazil Marine Ecoregion Coastal Habitats - Espirito Santo
Short name
PELD-HCES
Country
Brazil
Web Address
Peld Habitats Costeiros do Espirito Santo
Site Manager
Angelo Bernardino
Funding Agency
National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Fundação de Amparo á Pesquisa do Espírito Santo
Site Description
The LTER HCES site (or PELD-HCES) is a coastal marine protected area on the tropical Eastern Brazil Marine Ecoregion (Spalding et al., 2007), with includes a transition estuarine ecosystem composed of two estuaries, coastal sand beaches, algal reefs and maerl beds distributed along the inner continental shelf to depths og 50-60 meters.
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2020-06-29 10:40:58

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
2017
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
LTER Brazil✖ (LTER_SAM_BR_35)The affiliation of this site with "LTER Brazil" is not verified by the network on DEIMS-SDR.
Geographic
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: -19.95222222 Longitude: -40.12416667

Size
ca. 132510.00ha
Elevation (average)
0.00msl
Elevation (min)
0.00msl
Elevation (max)
-70.00msl
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Site information [.json]

Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml] [.geojson]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml] [.geojson]
GEO-BON Biome
Marine
Biome
Coastal
Ecosystem Type
Coastal
Marine
Tropical coral
Tropical upwelling
Rivers
Small rivers
EUNIS habitat
Marine habitats (A)
Marine habitats (A) » Littoral rock and other hard substrata (A1)
Marine habitats (A) » Littoral rock and other hard substrata (A1) » Moderate energy littoral rock (A1.2)
Marine habitats (A) » Littoral sediment (A2)
Marine habitats (A) » Littoral sediment (A2) » Littoral sand and muddy sand (A2.2)
Marine habitats (A) » Littoral sediment (A2) » Littoral mixed sediments (A2.4)
Marine habitats (A) » Littoral sediment (A2) » Littoral biogenic reefs (A2.7)
Marine habitats (A) » Infralittoral rock and other hard substrata (A3)
Marine habitats (A) » Infralittoral rock and other hard substrata (A3) » Atlantic and Mediterranean moderate energy infralittoral rock (A3.2)
Marine habitats (A) » Sublittoral sediment (A5)
Marine habitats (A) » Sublittoral sediment (A5) » Sublittoral biogenic reefs (A5.6)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
24.50°C
Precipitation Annual
1223.00mm
Vegetation
Mangroves
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
no experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
plot scale
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
plot within catchment
Permanent Power Supply
Yes
Equipment
Supporting infrastructure » Transportation » Boat
Equipment notes
Site based on a research lab of a public University in Brazil - Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. All equipment and infrastructure are provided from the leading researcher - Dr. Angelo Fraga Bernardino
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
boat
Permanent Operation
Yes
Site Visit Interval
180
General Data Policy
Co-authorship on publications resulting from use of the dataset
The opportunity to collaborate on the project using the dataset
Data Policy Notes
Temperature, seawater salinity and environmental data will be made available during the year of 2017.
Biological data will be made available after publications