National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) of Reef Fish at Wake Atoll in the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2025-04-03 to 2025-04-08 (NCEI Accession 0308952)

Description

The stationary point count (SPC) method is used by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD, formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) to conduct reef fish surveys in the Hawaiian and Mariana Archipelagos, American Samoa, and the Pacific Remote Island Areas as part of the NOAA National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP). This reef fish data set was collected during SPC surveys as part of the ESD-led NCRMP mission to the Pacific Remote Island Areas at Wake Atoll in 2025. The SPC method catalogs the diversity (species richness), abundance (numeric density) and biomass (fish mass per unit area) of diurnally active reef fish assemblages in shallow-water (less than 30 m) hard-bottom habitats. A stratified random sampling (StRS) design is employed to survey the coral reef ecosystems throughout the Pacific Remote Island Areas. The survey domain encompasses the majority of the mapped area of reef and hard bottom habitats and the stratification includes island, reef zone, and depth. Sampling effort is allocated based on strata area.

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0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/oas/308952
0 Navigate directly to the URL for data access and direct download. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/download/308952
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Institution web page https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/ecosystem_sciences/
0 Institution web page https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/ecosystem_sciences/
0 Institution web page https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/ecosystem_sciences/
0 Institution web page https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/ecosystem_sciences/
0 Institution web page https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/ecosystem_sciences/
0 Information for contacts at NCEI. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact
0 Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). 2025. GCMD Keywords, Version 21. 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
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0 NCEI Collection https://doi.org/10.7289/v58c9tkb
0 InPort Metadata Record https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/34519
0 Navigate directly to the URL for a descriptive web page with download links. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0308952
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Tags

  • crep
  • spc
  • united states of america
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • aquatic habitat
  • wake atoll
  • corals
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • pifsc
  • biosphere
  • pacific remote island areas
  • oceans
  • reef fish
  • marine invertebrates
  • numeric data sets
  • rapid ecological assessment
  • macroinvertebrates
  • oceanography
  • fish
  • national coral reef monitoring program (ncrmp)
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • earth science
  • rea
  • pria
  • reef fish census
  • marine biology
  • fish assemblages
  • cred
  • central pacific ocean
  • usa minor outlying islands
  • 743
  • ndxbn9
  • reef habitat
  • coral reef ecology
  • ocean basin
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • stationary
  • esd
  • coastal processes
  • species richness
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • fish census
  • pacific ocean
  • rapid assessment studies
  • ecological dynamics
  • stationary point count
  • country/territory
  • wake atoll (19n167e0001)
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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