NOAA coral reef monitoring invertebrate data from sites across Micronesia from 2009-09-29 to 2015-09-25

Sampling event
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Description

Invertebrate census data were collected from sites around Micronesia as part of the ongoing Micronesia Challenge. Information on the program can be found at (www.micronesiareefmonitoring.com). Survey sites were selected around each island to be representative of natural environmental gradients, management, and major reef types. Thus, full site designs can be used to evaluate both island trends and site-specific trends. Benthic substrates were evaluated using a photo-quadrat technique. At each site, five 50-m transects were used to measure fishes, corals, and other benthic assemblages between 8–10 m on outer reefs, and at 3–5 m for inner lagoon reefs. Each 50-m transect was surveyed at a 5-m width by either one or two observers. Invertebrates were identified to the lowest possible taxon and enumerated. When possible, a size esitmate to the nearest 5 cm was provided.

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 330 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.

Event (core)
330
Occurrence 
1028
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
76

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.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Houk P (2020). NOAA coral reef monitoring invertebrate data from sites across Micronesia from 2009-09-29 to 2015-09-25. United States Geological Survey. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/949wfb

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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: f78422ac-4efd-479e-99e2-ce36084d5f20.  United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

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Occurrence

Contacts

Peter Houk
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Professor
University of Guam
Abby Benson
  • Publisher
  • Biologist
U.S. Geological Survey
Sarah Bingo
  • Processor
  • Data Manager
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System

Geographic Coverage

Micronesia

Bounding Coordinates South West [5, 134.383], North East [11.355, 171.387]

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Houk, Peter; Yap Community Action Program; Yap State Division of Marine Resources; Chuuk Conservation Society; Chuuk Division of Marine Resources; Pohnpei State Fisheries; Conservation Society of Pohnpei; Kosrae Island Resource Management Authority; Kosrae Conservation and Safety Organization; Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority; College of the Marshall Islands (2017). Coral reef monitoring data from sites across Micronesia from 2009-09-29 to 2015-09-25 (NCEI Accession 0162463). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information.Dataset. https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0162463

Additional Metadata

marine, harvest by OBIS

Alternative Identifiers f78422ac-4efd-479e-99e2-ce36084d5f20
https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=noaa_micronesia_reef_monitoring_invert