Description
These data are reef fish observations from surveys conducted in the Florida Keys in 1994. These surveys were part of the developmental years of what became the Reef Visual Census, described in the project metadata, Bohnsack et al. 1999 and Smith et al. 2011
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 303 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
South Florida Reef Visual Census; https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/samples/index
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 54ecad6c-0ffe-436b-948b-fbd922c338c7. United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Occurrence; CORAL REEF; FISH; FLORIDA KEYS; IOOS; National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration; Observation
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Distributor
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4897-1669
Geographic Coverage
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [24.443, -81.977], North East [25.693, -80.089] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Reef fish, i.e. limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water and near coral reefs.
| Class | Teleostei (Teleosts) |
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| Subclass | Elasmobranchii (Elasmobranchs) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1994-04-18 / 1994-10-21 |
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Project Data
The Southeast Fisheries Science Center, along with other governmental, academic, and private partners, has been conducting a visual survey of reef fish species in the Florida Keys since 1978. This survey has since been expanded to include the Dry Tortugas and Southeast Florida Region. To learn more about the history, sampling design, and statistical design of the survey, please read Bohnsack et al. 1999 and Smith et al. 2011.
| Title | South Florida National Coral Reef Monitoring Program |
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| Funding | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
| Study Area Description | Florida Keys, Dry Tortugas and Southeast Florida |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Originator
Bibliographic Citations
- Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2011.01.012
- Brandt, M. E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem. Retrieve from http://www.coris.noaa.gov/activities/fish_monitoring_protocol/
- Bohnsack, J.A., McClellan, D.B., Harper, D.E., Davenport, G.S., Konoval, G.J., Eklund, A.M., Contillo, J.P., Bolden, S.K., Fischel, P.C., Sandorf, G.S., Javech, J.C., White, M.W., Pickett, M.H., Hulsbeck, M.W., Tobias, J.L., Ault, J.S., Meester, G.A., Smith, S.G., Luo., J., 1999. Baseline data for evaluating reef fish populations in the Florida Keys. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-427. https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/30889
Additional Metadata
marine, harvest by iOBIS
| Purpose | In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 54ecad6c-0ffe-436b-948b-fbd922c338c7 |
| https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=floridakeysreefvisualcensus1994 |