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OAS accession Detail for 0157595
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| Title: | National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified Random Surveys (StRS) of Reef Fish, including Benthic Estimate Data of the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2015-01-26 to 2015-04-28 (NCEI Accession 0157595) |
| Abstract: | The stationary point count (SPC) method is used 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). 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. Visual estimates of benthic cover and topographic complexity are also recorded, with benthic organisms grouped into broad functional categories (e.g., 'Hard Coral', 'Macroalgae'). A stratified random sampling (StRS) design is employed to survey the coral reef ecosystems throughout the U.S.-Pacific regions. For all regions, 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, with the exception of the Main Hawaiian Islands that includes habitat structure type as well. Sampling effort is allocated based on strata area. Data provided in this data set were collected as part of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) led NCRMP missions around the Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2015. |
| Date received: | 20161215 |
| Start date: | 20150126 |
| End date: | 20150428 |
| Seanames: | Equatorial Pacific Ocean, North Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean |
| West boundary: | -176.62678161 |
| East boundary: | -159.97200991 |
| North boundary: | 16.77717724 |
| South boundary: | -0.38246306 |
| Observation types: | in situ, survey, survey - biological, survey - swimmer/diver, visual estimate, visual observation |
| Instrument types: | swimmer/diver, visual observation |
| Datatypes: | FISH BIOMASS, FISH CENSUS, FISH - CORAL REEF, MACROINVERTEBRATE CENSUS, REEF AND/OR BOTTOM REGIME - PERCENT COVER, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - COUNT, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - ORGANISM LENGTH |
| Submitter: | Kanemura, Troy |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Ecosystem Sciences Division; Coral Reef Ecosystem Program |
| Collecting institutions: | |
| Contributing projects: | CORAL REEF STUDIES, CRCP, NCRMP, Pacific RAMP |
| Platforms: | Hi'ialakai (33HL) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | Submission Package ID: CLWM88 |
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| Metadata version: | 7 |
| Keydate: | 2016-12-19 14:45:13+00 |
| Editdate: | 2017-01-06 16:36:26+00 |