{
    "tag": 6932,
    "title": "Habitat--Offshore of Gaviota Map Area, California",
    "pubdate": "2017",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": null,
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/SeriesReports\/DS_DDS\/DS_781\/XMLs_on_ScienceBase\/F7TH8JWJ_OffshoreGaviota\/Habitat_OffshoreGaviota_metadata.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "This part of DS 781 presents data for the habitat map of the Offshore of Gaviota Map Area, California. The vector data file is included in \"Habitat_OffshoreGaviota.zip,\" which is accessible from https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5066\/F7TH8JWJ. These data accompany the pamphlet and map sheets of Johnson, S.Y., Dartnell, P., Cochrane, G.R., Hartwell, S.R., Golden, N.E., Kvitek, R.G., and Davenport, C.W. (S.Y. Johnson and S.A. Cochran, eds.), 2018, California State Waters Map Series\u2014Offshore of Gaviota, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018\u20131023, pamphlet 41 p., 9 sheets, scale 1:24,000, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3133\/ofr20181023.  This map shows physical marine benthic habitats in the Offshore of Gaviota map area. Marine benthic habitats represent a particular type of water quality, substrate, geomorphology, seafloor process, or any other attribute that may provide a habitat for a specific species or an assemblage of organisms. Marine benthic habitats are classified using the Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS), developed by representatives from a consortium of federal agencies. CMECS is the U.S. government standard for marine habitat characterization.  The standard provides an ecologically relevant structure for biologic, geologic, chemical, and physical habitat attributes.  This map illustrates the geoform and substrate components of the standard. This map was derived from geologic and geomorphic map units by translation of the unit description into the best-fit values of CMECS classes. The CMECS classes are documented at https:\/\/www.fgdc.gov\/standards\/projects\/FGDC-standards-projects\/cmecs-folder\/CMECS_Version_06-2012_FINAL.pdf.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Cochrane, Guy R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hartwell, Stephen R.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Johnson, Samuel Y.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Golden, Nadine E.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "85",
            "name": "benthic ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biologic communities and habitats at the bottom of lakes, streams, or oceans."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "706",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology concerned with the composition, geologic history, and earth processes of the ocean floor and the continental margin."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "008",
            "name": "geoscientificInformation",
            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "010",
            "name": "imageryBaseMapsEarthCover",
            "scope": "Base maps, for example land\/earth cover, topographic maps, imagery, unclassified images, annotations, digital ortho imagery"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
    "place_term": [],
    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/5898ecd9e4b0efcedb70779e?name=Habitat_OffshoreGaviota.jpg",
            "description": "Habitats of Offshore of Gaviota map area"
        }
    ],
    "fan": []
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