National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessing and Monitoring Cryptic Reef Diversity of Colonizing Marine Invertebrates using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2011 to 2018

Description

This dataset includes species identification data gathered from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). These ARMS are used by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) to assess and monitor cryptic reef diversity in the Pacific Remote Island Areas as part of the ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). 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 that biodiversity is sampled over precisely the same surface area in the exact same manner. This data was gathered at specific reef sites across the Pacific Remote Island Areas. At these sites, divers entered the water and deployed and/or recovered the ARMS unit. Each unit used to gather this data consists of 23 cm x 23 cm gray, 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 is affixed to the reef. They are designed to mimic the structural complexity of a reef and attract colonizing invertebrates. Soak times are approximately 3 years. Refer to the specific dataset to determine how long a particular unit was underwater as soak times can vary by location. Upon recovery, each ARMS unit was encapsulated, brought to the surface, and disassembled and processed on-board the research ship. Disassembled plates were photographed to document recruited sessile organisms, scraped clean and preserved in 95% ethanol for future DNA processing. Recruited motile organisms were then sieved into 3 size fractions: 2 mm, 500 um, and 100 um. The 500-um and 100-um fraction was bulked and preserved in 95% ethanol for future DNA processing. The 2-mm fraction was sorted into morphospecies. These DNA sequencing data are not included in this dataset.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Specimens recovered by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) from ARMS units deployed across Wake Atoll in 2011 and recovered in 2014. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162467
0 Specimens recovered by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) from ARMS units deployed across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (excluding Wake Atoll) in 2012 and recovered in 2015. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162464
0 Specimens recovered by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) from ARMS units deployed across Wake Atoll in 2014 and recovered in 2017. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0176227
0 Reference table for species recovered in American Samoa in 2018. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0226243
0 Specimens recovered by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) from ARMS units deployed across the Pacific Remote Island Areas (excluding Wake Atoll) in 2015 and recovered in 2018. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0226243
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/22465
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Online Resource https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 Online Resource https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/region/pacific-islands#science
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/22465.pdf
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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  • autonomous reef monitoring structure
  • invertebrate species
  • kingman reef (06n162w0001)
  • crep
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
  • united states of america
  • pacific remote islands marine national monument
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • wake atoll
  • corals
  • benthic habitat
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • pifsc
  • equatorial pacific ocean
  • in situ biological
  • jarvis island (00s160w0001)
  • biosphere
  • biodiversity
  • pacific remote island areas
  • national coral reef monitoring program
  • palmyra atoll (05n162w0001)
  • species identification
  • oceans
  • coral reef conservation program
  • marine invertebrates
  • noaa
  • numeric data sets
  • brachyura
  • nmfs
  • macroinvertebrates
  • biology
  • us doc
  • in situ
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • line islands
  • national marine fisheries service
  • triennial
  • autonomous reef monitoring structure (arms)
  • ramp
  • primnm
  • pria
  • marine biology
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  • central pacific ocean
  • usa minor outlying islands
  • autonomous reef monitoring structures
  • 743
  • visual estimate
  • reef habitat
  • reef assessment and monitoring program
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • esd
  • coastal processes
  • hi'ialakai
  • census
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • cryptobiota
  • pacific ocean
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  • wake atoll (19n167e0001)
  • coral reef studies
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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