Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program: Belt Transect Surveys of Corals at U.S. Pacific Reefs in 2008 (even size-class bins)

Description

The coral demographic data described here result from belt transect surveys conducted by the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD)---formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division---from January 27 to April 27, 2008 at coral reef sites in American Samoa and the Pacific Remote Island Areas as part of NOAA's Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (Pacific RAMP), with funding from the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP). Surveys were conducted at fixed sites at depths ranging from 3-21 m. Sites were surveyed using belt transects to collect coral colony metrics. At each site, the surveyor listed and identified to the genus or species level, all coral colonies occurring within 0.5 sq. meters of each side of two, 25-m transect lines; and recorded the visually estimated size class to which the maximum diameter of each colony belonged (0-5 cm; 6-10 cm; 11-20 cm; 21-30 cm; etc. Size-class bins continue through 300 cm in 10-cm increments). These coral demographic data provide information on coral abundance (density, proportion occurrence, and total colony abundance), size distribution, and taxonomic richness.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center homepage https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov
0 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center website https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/ecosystems/surveying-vast-ocean
0 Coral colony observations from coral demographic surveys of sites at American Samoa and the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2008 conducted by the PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0189728
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/25290
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/25290.pdf

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  • kingman reef (06n162w0001)
  • crep
  • ofu island (14s169w0013)
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/pifsc
  • united states of america
  • american samoa (14s170w0000)
  • pacific remote islands marine national monument
  • reef monitoring and assessment
  • johnston atoll (16n169w0001)
  • aquatic habitat
  • corals
  • coral reef ecosystem division
  • baker island
  • coral - colony size
  • pifsc
  • equatorial pacific ocean
  • in situ biological
  • jarvis island (00s160w0001)
  • biosphere
  • coral - species identification
  • pacific remote island areas
  • palmyra atoll (05n162w0001)
  • tutuila island (14s170w0016)
  • oceans
  • rose atoll marine national monument
  • coral reef conservation program
  • pacific reef and assessment monitoring program
  • american samoa
  • survey - biological
  • noaa
  • numeric data sets
  • coral - census
  • rapid ecological assessment
  • nmfs
  • biology
  • baker island (00n176w0001)
  • swains atoll (11s171w0001)
  • us doc
  • in situ
  • ta'u island (14s169w0012)
  • howland island
  • pacific islands fisheries science center
  • manu'a group
  • olosega island (14s169w0014)
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • line islands
  • national marine fisheries service
  • rea
  • ramp
  • manu'a islands (14s170w0038)
  • pria
  • ecosystem monitoring and assessment
  • marine biology
  • coral communities
  • cred
  • howland island (00s176w0001)
  • benthos analysis
  • survey - swimmer/diver
  • central pacific ocean
  • usa minor outlying islands
  • transect monitoring
  • reef habitat
  • reef assessment and monitoring program
  • ocean basin
  • c204 pacific reef assessment and monitoring program (pacific ramp): biennial monitoring for the us p
  • ecosystem sciences division
  • coral
  • esd
  • coastal processes
  • johnston atoll
  • hi'ialakai
  • 1221
  • species richness
  • zoology
  • coral reefs
  • rose atoll (14s168w0001)
  • pacific ocean
  • rapid assessment studies
  • ecological dynamics
  • country/territory
  • belt transect
  • south pacific ocean
  • coral reef studies
  • coral reef ecosystem program

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