National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) of Coral Demography (Adult and Juvenile Corals) across the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2014 to 2018

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 islands and atolls of the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2014 to 2018. 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 Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2014 to 2017, and starting in 2018 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), as well as reef zone (i.e., forereef, backreef, lagoon, and protected slope; the latter three only at Johnston and Kingman). 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 islands and atolls of the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2014 to 2018.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2015 (HA1501). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159161
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 Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Jarvis Island in 2016 (SE1602). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159164
0 Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Wake Island in 2014 (HA1401). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159162
0 NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands website https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific#survey-methods
0 NOAA Fisheries, Pacific Islands website https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/coral-reefs-pacific
0 NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) website. https://www.coris.noaa.gov/monitoring/
0 Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2015 (HA1501). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159161
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Pacific Remote Island Areas https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159161
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Pacific Remote Island Areas https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159161
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2016 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159164
0 List of coral genera surveyed at Wake Island https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159162
0 List of coral species surveyed at Wake Island https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159162
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2016. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159164
0 List of coral species surveyed at Jarvis and Wake Islands in 2017 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0163743
0 List of coral species surveyed in the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2018 that divers are confident in identifying and that the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) has used to generate benthic estimates. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0185193
0 Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Benthic REA monitoring summary : Jarvis Island, 2016. PIFSC data report DR-17-006. http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-006 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Wake Island in 2014 (HA1401). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159162
0 Presence / absence from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Wake Island in 2014 (HA1401). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159162
0 Presence / absence from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2015 (HA1501). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159161
0 Presence / absence from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Jarvis Island in 2016 (SE1602). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159164
0 Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Jarvis Island in 2016 (SE1602). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0159164
0 Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Wake and Jarvis in 2017 (HA1701). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0163743
0 Presence / absence from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Wake and Jarvis in 2017 (HA1701). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0163743
0 Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) conducted across Wake and Jarvis in 2017 (HA1701). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0163743
0 List of coral genera surveyed at Jarvis and Wake Islands in 2017. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0163743
0 Adult coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) conducted across the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2018 (HA1801). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0185193
0 Juvenile coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of stratified random sites by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) conducted across the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2018 (HA1801). https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0185193
0 List of coral genera surveyed in the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2018 that divers are confident in identifying and that the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) has used to generate benthic estimates. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0185193
0 Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Benthic REA monitoring summary : Wake Atoll, 2017. PIFSC data report DR-17-034. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-034 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Benthic REA monitoring summary : Jarvis Island, 2017. PIFSC data report DR-17-035. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-035 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Benthic REA monitoring summary : Howland and Baker Islands (Line Islands), 2017. PIFSC data report DR-17-038. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-038 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program benthic monitoring summary: Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument 2018. PIFSC Data Report DR-18-017. https://doi.org/10.25923/sgyt-y890 https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0157633
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/36166
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/36166.pdf
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 Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014. 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_PRIAs.html
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/
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
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 Pacific Remote Island Areas since 2014. 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_PRIAs.html

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