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OAS accession Detail for 0001976
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| accessions_id: | 0001976 | archive |
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| Supersedes: | 1973 |
| Title: | Year 2002 status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key micro invertebrates (NCEI Accession 0001976) |
| Abstract: | This study demonstrates the important role that long term monitoring programs can play in understanding the natural variability and long term trends in the coral reefs of American Samoa. One benefit of this study is that it provides an overview of the condition of the reefs on all the main volcanic islands simultaneously. It also provides a broad scale perspective for understanding the results of the site dedicated monitoring programs in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Pago Pago Harbour (Aua transect: see below), which provide a much longer term perspective on the reefs of Tutuila (85 and 25 years respectively). This dataset includes the status report (PDF and MS Word) and raw survey data (MS Excel) made in 1996 and 2002. Survey sites include all islands of American Samoa, although remote atolls of Swains and Rose were not made in 2002. Surveys were also made in the country of Western Samoa. |
| Date received: | 20050114 |
| Start date: | 19941001 |
| End date: | 20021231 |
| Seanames: | Southwest Pacific Ocean (limit-147 E to 140 W) |
| West boundary: | -172.9 |
| East boundary: | -168.13 |
| North boundary: | -11.03 |
| South boundary: | -14.36 |
| Observation types: | visual estimate |
| Instrument types: | |
| Datatypes: | FISH - CORAL REEF, MACROINVERTEBRATE CENSUS, SUBSTRATUM PERCENT COVER |
| Submitter: | Green, Dr. Alison |
| Submitting institution: | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
| Collecting institutions: | Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
| Contributing projects: | |
| Platforms: | SWIMMER/DIVER (33DV) |
| Number of observations: | 7 |
| Supplementary information: | Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Alison Green Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: PO Box 1379 City: Townsville State_or_Province: Queensland Postal_Code: 4810 Country: Australia |
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| Metadata version: | 7 |
| Keydate: | 2005-01-14 13:30:08+00 |
| Editdate: | 2024-02-19 16:17:09+00 |