Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Division of Coastal Resource Management Long-term Marine Monitoring Program: Benthic, Coral, Fish, and Macro-Invertebrate surveys from 2019-03-05 to 2020-09-29 (NCEI Accession 0286093)

Description

The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands’ Long-term Marine Monitoring Program (LTMMP) has extensively gathered monitoring data across the region. LTMMP divers have collected data from shallow fore reef habitats, seagrass areas, and back reefs. Using a range of survey techniques—such as quadrats, stationary point count (SPC), and belt transects—along three to five 50-meter transects. Quadrats were utilized to assess percent coral and benthic cover, while also enabling the calculation of coral size distribution and diversity. SPCs provided estimates for fish biomass and diversity. In parallel, belt transects were employed to determine macroinvertebrate density and diversity.

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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/w441-pf31
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/286093
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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/w441-pf31
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/286093
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/286093
0 These data are available through the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP is no longer supported by most internet browsers. You may copy and paste the FTP link to the data into an FTP client (e.g., FileZilla or WinSCP). ftp://ftp-oceans.ncei.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0221/0286093/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://dcrm.gov.mp/
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0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/286093
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/286093
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://doi.org/10.25921/w441-pf31
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
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Tags

  • computer
  • coral cover
  • functional_group
  • macroinvertebrate communities
  • western pacific ocean
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • benthic
  • northern mariana islands
  • award number: na19nos4820052
  • photograph analysis
  • in situ biological
  • biosphere
  • cover
  • biodiversity
  • laulau bay ( bahia laulau ) (15n145e0009)
  • size_length
  • rota island
  • ruler
  • oceans
  • algae
  • rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007)
  • marine invertebrates
  • northern mariana islands ( cnmi ) (18n146e0000)
  • hard coral cover
  • h876pe
  • numeric data sets
  • algal cover
  • macroinvertebrates
  • oceanography
  • biology
  • quadrat monitoring
  • density
  • tinian island reefs
  • area
  • earth science
  • coral colony size and condition
  • bird island (15n145e0020)
  • coral biodiversity
  • benthic biology
  • coralline algae
  • vegetation
  • fleshy macroalgae
  • state and territorial government cooperative agreement
  • crustose coralline algae
  • mariana archipelago
  • reef fish census
  • marine biology
  • tanapag lagoon (15n145e0006)
  • coral communities
  • na19nos4820052
  • field_id
  • saipan island
  • rota
  • saipan
  • cpce software
  • microbiota
  • benthos analysis
  • cnmi long-term marine monitoring program
  • site
  • macroinvertebrate density and species richness
  • blue-green algae
  • transect monitoring
  • reef habitat
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • coral
  • stationary
  • garapan (15n145e0013)
  • coastal processes
  • geometric_diameter
  • size_class
  • saipan island (15n145e0002)
  • macroinvertebrate census
  • census
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • sarigan island (16n145e0003)
  • pacific ocean
  • country/territory
  • belt transect
  • tinian
  • turf algae
  • sarigan island
  • tinian island (14n145e0005)

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