National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Complexity and Urchin Abundance at Climate Stations of the Mariana Archipelago since 2014

Description

The benthic complexity and urchin abundance monitoring effort provides baselines for tracking these variables at NCRMP climate stations. Climate stations are 3-4 sites per island that were selected in a stratified random fashion to be roughly equally spaced around the island, along the 15 m contour, on hard bottom, and at least 1 km away from a river mouth or embayment. Once selected we assess multiple features of the coral reef environment including in-situ temperature (STR), seawater carbonate, net carbonate accretion (CAU), bioerosion (BMU), and cryptobiota diversity (ARMS). Structural complexity is known to be an important component in coral reef ecosystems. Ecosystem relationships that correlate with structural complexity include reef fish density and biomass, live and branching coral cover, urchin abundance and algal cover (Graham and Nash 2013). In many cases, the benthic complexity is an important indicator of benthic and fish communities. The data were collected around the Mariana archipelago as part of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) led missions since 2014. These data can be accessed online via the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Ocean Archive.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Benthic complexity and urchin abundance data captured by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program at sites across the Marianas archipelago in 2014. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159141
0 Benthic complexity and urchin abundance data captured by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program at sites across the Marianas archipelago in 2017. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0167409
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/25251
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
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
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/25251.pdf
0 Link to the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program website https://coralreef.noaa.gov

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  • crep
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
  • united states of america
  • western pacific ocean
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • maug
  • asuncion island (19n145e0001)
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • benthic
  • northern mariana islands
  • pifsc
  • biosphere
  • national coral reef monitoring program
  • maug island
  • rota island
  • survey
  • oceans
  • coral reef conservation program
  • rota island ( luta ) (14n145e0007)
  • marine invertebrates
  • maug island (20n145e0001)
  • northern mariana islands ( cnmi ) (18n146e0000)
  • survey - biological
  • cnmi
  • noaa
  • guam
  • pagan island (18n145e0001)
  • numeric data sets
  • marianas
  • nmfs
  • macroinvertebrates
  • guam (13n144e0000)
  • us doc
  • tinian island reefs
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • national marine fisheries service
  • triennial
  • mariana archipelago
  • marine biology
  • marianas archipelago
  • cred
  • saipan island
  • rota
  • saipan
  • marianas trench marine national monument
  • pagan
  • survey - swimmer/diver
  • 743
  • commonwealth of the northern mariana islands
  • visual estimate
  • pagan island
  • reef habitat
  • asuncion island
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • coastal processes
  • hi'ialakai
  • saipan island (15n145e0002)
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • pacific ocean
  • country/territory
  • rugosity
  • tinian
  • nw pacific (limit-180)
  • tinian island (14n145e0005)
  • coral reef studies
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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