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.
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:
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
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: 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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Contacts
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4391-107X
Geographic Coverage
Micronesia
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [5, 134.383], North East [11.355, 171.387] |
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Bibliographic Citations
- 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 |
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| https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=noaa_micronesia_reef_monitoring_invert |