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Fish Spawning Location, Great Lakes Region 2017

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Citation
Title
Fish Spawning Location, Great Lakes Region 2017
Originator
Great Lakes Commission
Publication Date
2019-11-08
Edition
2019
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Abstract
The atlas contains information on all of the commercially and recreationally important species that use the tributaries, littoral and open-water areas of the Great Lakes as spawning and nursery habitats. Close to 9500 geo-referenced data records (occurrences of fish species) were imported into ArcView GIS. The 139 fish taxa reported in the Atlas had to be grouped into fewer broad categories to produce meaningful distribution maps. We chose three functional classification schemes. Jude and Pappas (1992) used Correspondence Analysis to partition fish species associated with the open water of each of the five Great Lakes and nine coastal wetlands. Three species complexes were suggested: a Great Lakes taxocene; a transitional taxocene, which utilized open water, near-shore, and wetlands; and a wetland taxocene. We chose this as one of the classification schemes because we are particularly interested in identifying the distribution pattern of fish with coastal wetlands; for clarity sake, we have renamed these taxocenes coastal, intermediate and open-water, respectively. For comparison, we also used Coker et al.'s (2001) classification based on temperature preferenda (5 classes) and Balon's (1975) reproductive guild classification (32 guilds).
Purpose
Species occurrence data obtained from the Atlas of Spawning and Nursery Areas of Great Lakes Fishes (Goodyear et al. 1982). [This data is intended for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.]
Supplemental Information
For access to the most current data, please visit: [https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=owner%3A%22glc_esri%22restrict=false]
Temporal Extent
Time Instant
2017-01-01T00:00:00
Bounding Box
West
-92.266667
East
-74.638889
North
49.1
South
41.38
ISO Topic Category
biota
Place Keyword
Great Lakes
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNS
Place Keyword
Lake Erie
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNS
Place Keyword
Lake Huron
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNS
Place Keyword
Lake Michigan
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNS
Place Keyword
Lake Ontario
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNS
Place Keyword
Lake Superior
Place Keyword Thesaurus
GNS
Theme Keyword
Fishes
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
LCSH
Theme Keyword
Spawning
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Resource Constraints
Use Limitation
Access constraints Copyright: Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist, distributor.
Legal Constraints
Use Limitation
Although this data is being distributed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the University as to the accuracy of the data and related materials. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the University in the use of this data, or related materials.
Status
completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
unknown
Language
eng
Credit
Great Lakes Commission
Point of Contact
Contact
Great Lakes Commission
Delivery Point
1300 Victors Way, Suite 1350
City
Ann Arbor
Administrative Area
MI
Postal Code
48108
Country
US
Phone
734-971-9135

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
4326
Code Space
EPSG
Version
9.7

Data Quality Information

Lineage
Process Step
Description
Provided access to archived data at UW-Madison.
Process Date
2019-11-08T00:00:00

Distribution Information

Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
1.0
Distributor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Distributor
Great Lakes Commission
Online Access
https://gisdata.wisc.edu/public/GLRegion_Fish_Spawning_Location_2017.zip
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
Name
GeoData@Wisconsin
Function
download

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
point
Vector Object Count
9430

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
34279173-9394-4712-A68E-628914F36FBF
Metadata Point of Contact
Name
Arthur H. Robinson Map Library
Position Name
Metadata Technician
Delivery Point
550 N. Park Street
City
Madison
Administrative Area
WI
Postal Code
53706
Country
US
Email
askmap@library.wisc.edu
Phone
(608) 262-1471
Metadata Date Stamp
2019-11-08
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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