National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) of Coral Demography (Adult and Juvenile Corals) across the Hawaiian Archipelago since 2013

Description

The data described here result from benthic coral demographic surveys within belt transects of specified length and width for two life stages (juveniles and adults) across the Hawaiian archipelago since 2013. The data provide information on adult coral colony counts, morphology, size, partial mortality (old and recent dead), presence and causation of disease and other compromised health conditions, including bleaching. Juvenile colony surveys include morphology and size. Taxonomic identification of adult colonies is to the species level and genus level for juveniles.

A two-stage stratified random sampling (StRS) design was employed to survey the coral reef ecosystems of the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013, 2016, and 2017 and starting in 2019 a one-stage StRS design was employed. The survey domain encompassed the majority of the mapped area of reef and hard bottom habitats in the 0–30 m depth range. The stratification scheme included island, reef zone, and depth (i.e., shallow: >0–6 m; mid-depth: >6–18 m; and deep: >18–30 m), habitat structure type, as well as reef zone (i.e., forereef, backreef, lagoon, and protected slope; the latter three only in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands). Sampling effort allocation was determined based on strata area and sites randomly located within strata. The StRS design effectively reduces estimate variance through stratification using environmental covariates and by sampling more sites rather than more transects per site. Therefore, site-level estimates and site-to-site comparisons should proceed with caution.

The data were collected as part of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) and Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD; formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) led National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) missions around the Main Hawaiian Islands in 2013, 2016 and 2019, and the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2016. Data collected as part of the 2014 and 2015 Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument funded research cruises in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are also included. The latter are funded separately but are complementary to the ESD NCRMP-funded data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
Benthic Monitoring Briefs since 2016 Unknown NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) Benthic Monitoring Briefs available for FTP download for surveys starting in 2016. Monitoring briefs provide timely release of a summary overview of monitoring effort and preliminary data following a research expedition led by ESD, including Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program cruises and other missions. This type of report is intended as an initial and provisional summary of the data collected, and the information contained in these briefs is subject to change.
PIFSC_NTM-PIFSC-71_2018_SOP_Benthic.pdf Unknown Ecosystem Sciences Division Standard Operating Procedures: Data Collection for Rapid Ecological Assessment Benthic Surveys. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-PIFSC-71, 63 p. https://doi.org/10.25923/39jh-8993 Open resource
PIFSC_DR-17-008_2016_BenthicBrief_MHI.pdf Unknown Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Benthic REA monitoring summary : main Hawaiian Islands, 2016. PIFSC data report DR-17-008. http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-008 Open resource
PIFSC_DR-17-005_2016_BenthicBrief_NWHI.pdf Unknown Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Benthic REA monitoring summary : Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 2016. PIFSC data report DR-17-005. http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-005 Open resource
PIFSC_NTM-PIFSC-92_2018_SOP_Benthic.pdf Unknown Winston M, Couch C, Ferguson M, Huntington B, Swanson D, Vargas-Ángel B. 2019. Ecosystem Sciences Division Standard Operating Procedures: Data Collection for Rapid Ecological Assessment Benthic Surveys, 2018 Update. NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-92, 66 p. doi:10.25923/w1k2-0y84 https://doi.org/10.25923/w1k2-0y84 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_F HAWAII 2013.csv Unknown Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013 (HA1304 / HA1305). Open resource
HAWAII2013_coralgenera.csv Unknown List of coral genera surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_E_PRESENCE HAWAII 2013.csv Unknown Presence / absence from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013 (HA1304 / HA1305). Open resource
HAWAII2013_coralspecies.csv Unknown List of coral species surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_E_ HAWAII 2013.csv Unknown Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013 (HA1304 / HA1305). Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_E_ HAWAII 2016.csv Unknown Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Hawaiian archipelago in 2016 (HA1606). Open resource
HAWAII2016_coralgenera.csv Unknown List of coral genera surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 201 Open resource
HAWAII2016_coralspecies.csv Unknown List of coral species surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 201 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_F HAWAII 2016.csv Unknown Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Hawaiian archipelago in 2016 (HA1606). Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_E_PRESENCE HAWAII 2016.csv Unknown Presence / absence from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Hawaiian archipelago in 2016 (HA1606). Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_E_NWHI_2014_PMNM.csv Unknown Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument conducted across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2014 (HA1404). Open resource
NWHI2014_coralspecies.csv Unknown List of coral species surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2014 Open resource
NWHI2014_coralgenera.csv Unknown List of coral genera surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2014 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_F_ NWHI 2014_PMNM.csv Unknown Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument conducted across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2014 (HA1404). Open resource
NWHI2015_coralspecies.csv Unknown List of coral species surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2015 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_E_NWHI_2015_PMNM.csv Unknown Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument conducted across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2015 (HA1505). Open resource
NWHI2015_coralgenera.csv Unknown List of coral genera surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2015 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_F_NWHI_2015_PMNM.csv Unknown Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument conducted across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2015 (HA1505). Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_E_2019_MHI.csv Unknown Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Main Hawaiian Islands in 2019 (SE1902). Open resource
MHI2019_coralgenera.csv Unknown List of coral genera surveyed in the Main Hawaiian Islands in 2019 Open resource
V0_CORAL_OBS_F_2019_MHI.csv Unknown Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Main Hawaiian Islands in 2019 (SE1902). Open resource
MHI2019_coralspecies.csv Unknown List of coral species surveyed in the Main Hawaiian Islands in 2019 Open resource
PMNM_CORAL_OBS_E_ NWHI_2017.csv Unknown Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument conducted across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2017 (HA1704_PMNM). Open resource
PMNM_CORAL_OBS_F_NWHI_2017.csv Unknown Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument conducted across the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2017 (HA1704_PMNM). Open resource
https://ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/CRCP_Coral_Demographic_Survey_Adult_Hawaii.html HTML NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) ERDDAP web service for coral demographic data of adult corals collected by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) during ESD-led NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program missions to the Hawaiian Archipelago since 2013. ERDDAP acts as a middleman between you and various remote data servers. ERDDAP offers an easy-to-use, consistent way to request data: via the OPeNDAP standard. Many datasets can also be accessed via ERDDAP's Web Map Service (WMS). ERDDAP returns data in the common file format of your choice. ERDDAP offers all data as .html table, ESRI .asc and .csv, Google Earth .kml, OPeNDAP binary, .mat, .nc, ODV .txt, .csv, .tsv, .json, and .xhtml. ERDDAP can also return a .png or .pdf image with a customized graph or map. ERDDAP also has web pages (for humans with browsers) and RESTful web services (for computer programs). Open resource
https://ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/CRCP_Coral_Demographic_Survey_Juvenile_Hawaii.html HTML NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) ERDDAP web service for coral demographic data of juvenile corals collected by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) during ESD-led NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program missions to the Hawaiian Archipelago since 2013. ERDDAP acts as a middleman between you and various remote data servers. ERDDAP offers an easy-to-use, consistent way to request data: via the OPeNDAP standard. Many datasets can also be accessed via ERDDAP's Web Map Service (WMS). ERDDAP returns data in the common file format of your choice. ERDDAP offers all data as .html table, ESRI .asc and .csv, Google Earth .kml, OPeNDAP binary, .mat, .nc, ODV .txt, .csv, .tsv, .json, and .xhtml. ERDDAP can also return a .png or .pdf image with a customized graph or map. ERDDAP also has web pages (for humans with browsers) and RESTful web services (for computer programs). Open resource
National Coral Reef Monitoring Program Unknown NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) website. Open resource
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords Unknown 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. Open resource
Full Metadata Record Unknown View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. Open resource
NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP) PDF NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. Open resource
Coral Reefs in the Pacific Unknown NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands website Open resource
Survey Methods Unknown NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands website Open resource
Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Unknown Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument website Open resource
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Website Unknown Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage Open resource

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