Assessing cryptic reef diversity of colonizing marine invertebrates using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) deployed at coral reef sites in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea from 2009 to 2012

Description

Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) are used by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) to assess and monitor cryptic reef diversity across the Pacific. Developed in collaboration with the Census of Marine Life (CoML) Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems (CReefs), ARMS are designed to mimic the structural complexity of a reef and attract/collect colonizing marine invertebrates. The key innovation of the ARMS method is biodiversity is sampled over precisely the same surface area in the exact same manner. Thus, the use of ARMS is a systematic, consistent, and comparable method for monitoring the marine cryptobiota community over time. The data described here were collected by CREP from ARMS units moored at fixed climate survey sites located in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Climate sites were established by CREP to assess multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) from September 2009 to September 2012, and three ARMS units were deployed by SCUBA divers at each survey site. The data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive. Each ARMS unit, constructed in-house by CREP, consisted of 23 cm x 23 cm gray, type 1 PVC plates stacked in alternating series of 4 open and 4 obstructed layers and attached to a base plate of 35 cm x 45 cm, which was affixed to the reef. Upon recovery, each ARMS unit was encapsulated, brought to the surface, and disassembled and processed. Disassembled plates were photographed to document recruited sessile organisms and scraped clean and preserved in 95% ethanol for DNA processing. Recruited motile organisms were sieved into 3 size fractions: 2 mm, 500 µm, and 100 µm. The 500 µm and 100 µm fractions were bulked and also preserved in 95% ethanol for DNA processing. The 2 mm fraction was sorted into morphospecies. This dataset includes information on the species counted and identified in the 2 mm fraction.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 2mm specimens categorized by species recovered from ARMS Units in Papua New Guinea in 2012. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0237816
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64757
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Information about the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program's activities in the Coral Triangle. https://origin-apps-pifsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/cred/coral_triangle_initiative.php
0 Information on NOAA CRED's official website https://origin-apps-pifsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/cred/index.php
0 NOAA's Official page for ARMS https://origin-apps-pifsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/cred/survey_methods/arms/overview.php
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/64757.pdf
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 Integrating Fisheries, Biodiversity, and Climate Change Objectives into Marine Protected Area Design in the Coral Triangle. Discusses funding and projects for USAID in the Coral Triangle. https://www.coraltriangleinitiative.org/sites/default/files/resources/CTSP_Resilient%20MPA%20Design%20Project.pdf
0 2mm specimens categorized by species recovered from ARMS Units in Papua New Guinea in 2012. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0237816
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64757
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Information about the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program's activities in the Coral Triangle. https://origin-apps-pifsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/cred/coral_triangle_initiative.php
0 Information on NOAA CRED's official website https://origin-apps-pifsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/cred/index.php
33 Integrating Fisheries, Biodiversity, and Climate Change Objectives into Marine Protected Area Design in the Coral Triangle. Discusses funding and projects for USAID in the Coral Triangle. https://www.coraltriangleinitiative.org/sites/default/files/resources/CTSP_Resilient%20MPA%20Design%20Project.pdf
0 NOAA's Official page for ARMS https://origin-apps-pifsc.fisheries.noaa.gov/cred/survey_methods/arms/overview.php
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 22. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/64757.pdf

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  • invertebrate species
  • crep
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
  • visual observation
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • papua new guinea
  • pifsc
  • in situ biological
  • biosphere
  • biodiversity
  • species identification
  • oceans
  • bismarck sea
  • coral reef conservation program
  • marine invertebrates
  • survey - biological
  • noaa
  • numeric data sets
  • brachyura
  • nmfs
  • baseline studies
  • macroinvertebrates
  • kimbe bay
  • biology
  • us doc
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • national marine fisheries service
  • autonomous reef monitoring structure (arms)
  • the nature conservancy
  • small boat
  • australian institute of marine sciences
  • new guinea
  • coral triangle initiative
  • marine biology
  • cred
  • kimbe bay (05s151e0000)
  • arms
  • united states agency for international development
  • equatorial pacific
  • autonomous reef monitoring structures
  • visual estimate
  • pacific reef assessment and monitoring program: monitoring coral reef ecosystems of the us pacific i
  • reef habitat
  • walindi plantation resort
  • international programs
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • c204 pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the us p
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • coastal processes
  • hi'ialakai
  • 1221
  • census
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • cryptobiota
  • pacific ocean
  • usaid
  • james cook university
  • species identification - count
  • country/territory
  • south pacific ocean
  • 587
  • coral reef studies
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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