Benthic percent cover derived from analysis of benthic images collected at coral reef sites in Batangas, Philippines in 2015

Description

The benthic cover data described here result from benthic photo-quadrat surveys conducted by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) in 2015 along transects 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) over time. Benthic habitat photographs were quantitatively analyzed using a web-based annotation tool called CoralNet (Beijbom et al. 2016). Images were analyzed to produce three functional group levels of benthic cover: Tier 1 (e.g., hard coral, soft coral, macroalgae, turf algae, etc.), Tier 2 (e.g., Hard Coral = massive, branching, foliose, encrusting, etc.; Macroalgae = upright macroalgae, encrusting macroalgae, bluegreen macroalgae, and Halimeda, etc.), and Tier 3 (e.g., Hard Coral = Astreopora sp, Favia sp, Pocillopora, etc.; Macroalgae = Caulerpa sp, Dictyosphaeria sp, Padina sp, etc.). These benthic cover data for the Philippines provide an estimate of the benthic community composition at each climate survey site, and give context to the results from the other climate survey components (archived separately). The data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/45819
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Link to the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program website https://coralreef.noaa.gov
0 CoralNet Home Page https://coralnet.ucsd.edu/
0 Information about the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program's activities in the Coral Triangle. https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/coral_triangle_initiative.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/
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/45819.pdf
0 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Coral Reef Ecosystem Program official website, Ecological Assessment of Coral web page. https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/corals.php
0 Image analysis data derived from photoquadrat benthic images collected by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) at climate survey sites in the Philippines in 2015. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162828
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

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  • crep
  • coral cover
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • benthic
  • pifsc
  • photograph analysis
  • in situ biological
  • verde island passage
  • biosphere
  • philippines from 2012 to 2015
  • photographic analysis
  • oceans
  • algae
  • coral reef conservation program
  • marine invertebrates
  • reef and/or bottom regime - percent cover
  • hard coral cover
  • south china sea
  • batong buhay
  • noaa
  • batangas
  • numeric data sets
  • algal cover
  • nmfs
  • baseline studies
  • mabini (13n120e0032)
  • quadrat monitoring
  • 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
  • benthic biology
  • national marine fisheries service
  • vegetation
  • climate
  • crustose coralline algae
  • twin rocks
  • koala reserve area
  • arthur's reef
  • coral triangle initiative
  • batalang bato
  • marine biology
  • coral communities
  • cred
  • encrusting macroalgae
  • microbiota
  • united states agency for international development
  • benthos analysis
  • tingloy (13n120e0009)
  • philippines
  • blue-green algae
  • reef habitat
  • derived products
  • twin rocks sanctuary (13n120e0005)
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • coral
  • coastal processes
  • octocoral cover
  • 483
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • pacific ocean
  • usaid
  • biodiversity and fisheries in the coral triangle: embracing the e in ecosystem approaches to fisheri
  • country/territory
  • nw pacific (limit-180)
  • turf algae
  • coral reef studies
  • arthur's rock (13n120e0002)
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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