Assessing cryptic reef diversity of colonizing marine invertebrates using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) deployed at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines from 2012 to 2015

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 moored at fixed climate survey sites located on hard bottom shallow water (< 15 m) habitats in the Philippines. Climate sites were established by CREP to assess multiple features of the coral reef environment (in addition to the data described herein) from March 2012 to June 2015, 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 ��m, 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. Once the data for DNA processing is published, it will be accessible in a separate record that will be added in the "Related Items" section below.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 ARMS specimens recovered by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) from the Philippines in 2015. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162829
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords
0 Reference table for species recovered in the Philippines in 2015. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162829
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/45818
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 PIFSC Coral Reef Ecosystem Program blog post from the 2013 mission to the Philippines. https://pifscblog.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/verde-island-passage/
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/45818.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
  • pifsc
  • in situ biological
  • verde island passage
  • biosphere
  • philippines from 2012 to 2015
  • biodiversity
  • species identification
  • oceans
  • coral reef conservation program
  • marine invertebrates
  • south china sea
  • batong buhay
  • survey - biological
  • noaa
  • batangas
  • numeric data sets
  • brachyura
  • nmfs
  • baseline studies
  • macroinvertebrates
  • mabini (13n120e0032)
  • biology
  • us doc
  • baseline data from climate stations in batangas
  • maricaban island
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • balayan bay
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • national marine fisheries service
  • autonomous reef monitoring structure (arms)
  • climate
  • twin rocks
  • koala reserve area
  • arthur's reef
  • coral triangle initiative
  • batalang bato
  • marine biology
  • cred
  • arms
  • united states agency for international development
  • autonomous reef monitoring structures
  • tingloy (13n120e0009)
  • philippines
  • visual estimate
  • reef habitat
  • twin rocks sanctuary (13n120e0005)
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • coastal processes
  • 483
  • census
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • cryptobiota
  • pacific ocean
  • usaid
  • biodiversity and fisheries in the coral triangle: embracing the e in ecosystem approaches to fisheri
  • species identification - count
  • country/territory
  • nw pacific (limit-180)
  • coral reef studies
  • arthur's rock (13n120e0002)
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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