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
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2014 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184908
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2014 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184908
0 NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands website https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific#survey-methods
0 NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) website. https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 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 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2015 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184909
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159147
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in 2015 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184909
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Main Hawaiian Islands in 2019 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0224177
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0265501
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/36164
0 NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands website https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2024. GCMD Keywords, Version 19. Greenbelt, MD: Earth Science Data and Information System, Earth Science Projects Division, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). URL (GCMD Keyword Forum Page): https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD+Keywords https://forum.earthdata.nasa.gov/app.php/tag/GCMD%2BKeywords
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159147
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159147
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159147
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 201 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159163
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 201 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159163
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Main Hawaiian Islands in 2019 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0224177
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0224177
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0265501
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Hawaiian archipelago in 2013 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159147
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159163
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159163
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159163
0 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 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 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 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 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 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184908
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184909
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184908
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0184909
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument website https://www.papahanaumokuakea.gov/
0 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). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0224177
0 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. ftp://ftp.nodc.noaa.gov/nodc/archive/arc0101/0157633/
21 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). https://ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/CRCP_Coral_Demographic_Survey_Adult_Hawaii.html
21 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). https://ecowatch.ncddc.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/CRCP_Coral_Demographic_Survey_Juvenile_Hawaii.html
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/pifsc/dmp/pdf/36164.pdf

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