URL | https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=noaa_micronesia_reef_monitoring_benthic | ||||||||||
Repository URL | https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/ | ||||||||||
Node | OBIS USA | ||||||||||
Published | 2020-06-02 20:12 | ||||||||||
First registered | 2020-06-02 22:23 | ||||||||||
Abstract | Benthic 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.Fifty photos were taken at 1-m intervals along each 50-m transect line. Within each photo the benthic substrates were evaluated under five randomly allocated crosses. Benthic-assemblage metrics were derived from data aggregated across the 50 photographs, to the transect level (n = 5). Metrics included coral and macroalgal cover, coral-genus richness, and a benthic substrate ratio defined by the percentage cover of heavily calcifying (corals and CCA) versus non-or-low calcifying (turf, encrusting, and macroalgae) substrates. | ||||||||||
Citation | |||||||||||
Rights | 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) | ||||||||||
Keywords | Samplingevent | ||||||||||
Contacts |
|
Occurrence records | 6,288 | |
Species level | 773 |
|
Absence records | 52,232 | |
Event records | 616 | |
MoF records | 6,160 | |
Sequence records | 0 | |
Species | 3 | |
Taxa | 74 | |
Time range | 2009 - 2015 |
This dataset has appeared in 1,123 downloads in 2024, with a total of 6,263,806 records.
Dropped records | 16,632 |
|
Not marine | 0 |
|
No WoRMS match | 16,632 |
|
No coordinates | 0 |
|
Zero coordinates | 0 |
|
Marine unsure | 0 |
|
No accepted name available | 0 |
|
Field | Missing | Invalid | |
---|---|---|---|
scientificName | 3,696 | 0 |
|
scientificNameID | 3,696 | 12,936 |
|
Records on land | 0 |
|
More than 20 km from shore | 0 |
|
Depth exceeds bathymetric depth | 0 |
|
Scientific name | Records |
---|---|
Porites Link, 1807
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa |
702 |
Acropora Oken, 1815
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa |
616 |
Porites rus (Forskål, 1775)
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa |
462 |
Halimeda J.V.Lamouroux, 1812
Phylum Chlorophyta > Class Ulvophyceae |
332 |
Montipora Blainville, 1830
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa |
318 |
Porites cylindrica Dana, 1846
NT Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa |
289 |
Octocorallia Haeckel, 1866
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Octocorallia |
258 |
Favia De Blainville, 1820
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa |
189 |
Cyanobacteria Stanier ex Cavalier-Smith, 2002
Phylum Cyanobacteria |
187 |
Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
Phylum Cnidaria > Class Anthozoa |
181 |
Name | OceanExpert ID |
---|---|
U.S. Geological Survey HQ | 12976 |
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System | 20188 |
University of Guam |