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OAS accession Detail for 0290628
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| Title: | National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Benthic Cover Derived from Analysis of Benthic Images Collected for Climate Stations across the Pacific Remote Island Areas from 2023-03-15 to 2023-03-19 (NCEI Accession 0290628) |
| Abstract: | The coral reef benthic community data described here result from the annotation (classification) of benthic images collected during photoquadrat surveys at permanent sites in the islands and atolls of the Pacific-Remote Island Areas (PRIA) in 2023. These surveys are conducted by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD, formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) as part of NOAA's ongoing National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) according to protocols established by ESD and NCRMP during ESD-led NCRMP missions to PRIA. SCUBA divers conducted benthic photoquadrat surveys at permanent sites established in coral reef habitats by ESD. A select number of these sites were chosen in hard-bottom habitat at ~15-m depths, and a subset of the permanent sites (climate stations) were established at north, south, east, and west points around each of the islands and atolls. The divers estimated and delineated each site’s rectangular perimeter by temporarily placing measuring tapes with 1-m markers starting from a permanently installed reference stake on the reef. Along the nearshore 10-m side of the survey site and the downslope 5-m side, the measuring tapes marked every meter of the L-shaped 15-m transect used for photoquadrat documentation. The divers photographed the reef at 1-m intervals on both sides of the 15-m tape, generating 30 photographs per survey site. Benthic habitat images were quantitatively analyzed using the web-based annotation tool, CoralNet (Beijbom et al. 2015). Ten points were randomly overlaid on each image and human analysts identified the organism or type of substrate beneath, with 300 annotations (points) generated per site. Benthic elements falling under each point were identified to genus/morphology for hard corals, and to genus/functional group for algae, invertebrates, and other taxa following Lozada-Misa et al. (2017). In general, the analysis resulted in three levels of benthic community data, including taxa group Tier 1 (e.g., coral, soft coral, macroalgae, turf algae, etc.), Tier 2 (e.g., Coral = massive hard coral, branching hard coral, foliose hard coral, encrusting hard coral, etc.; Macroalga = upright macroalgae), and Tier 3 (e.g., Coral = Astreopora sp, Favia sp, Pocillopora, etc.; Macroalgae = Caulerpa sp, Dictyosphaeria sp, Padina sp, etc.). If Tier 3 resolution is not possible, the next finest resolution is used.. These benthic data can ultimately be used to produce estimates of relative abundance (percentage of benthic cover), frequency of occurrence, benthic community taxonomic composition, and relative generic richness. |
| Date received: | 20240314 |
| Start date: | 20230315 |
| End date: | 20230319 |
| Seanames: | Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument |
| West boundary: | -176.621573 |
| East boundary: | -176.456532 |
| North boundary: | 0.819811 |
| South boundary: | 0.186996 |
| Observation types: | biological, laboratory analyses |
| Instrument types: | photograph |
| Datatypes: | BENTHIC SPECIES, BENTHIC SPECIES - TAXA COUNTS, biological data, CORAL, CORAL - CENSUS, CORAL - SPECIES IDENTIFICATION, HABITAT - BENTHIC |
| Submitter: | Luers, Lori |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center |
| Collecting institutions: | US DOC; NOAA; NMFS; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; Ecosystem Sciences Division |
| Contributing projects: | CORAL REEF STUDIES, CRCP, NCRMP, Pacific RAMP |
| Platforms: | Rainier (315R) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | Submission Package ID: 86HJCN |
| Availability date: | |
| Metadata version: | 5 |
| Keydate: | 2024-03-29 18:30:31+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-04-10 18:26:38+00 |