Dataset: coral diversity and richness

Name: Coral and algae cover, coral richness, and coral diversity from coral reef sites sampled by small boats in the Palauan archipelago from 2011-2013
Published: 2015-06-23
Keywords: oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.520476.2

Spatial Extent: N:7.544 E:134.557 S:7.271 W:134.357

Temporal Extent: 2010 - 2012

Project:

An Investigation of the Role of Nutrition in the Coral Calcification Response to Ocean Acidification (OA Nutrition and Coral Calcification)

Constraining Thermal Thresholds and Projections of Temperature Stress on Pacific Coral Reefs Over the 21st Century: Method Refinement and Application (Thermal Thresholds and Projections)

Toward Predicting the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Net Calcification by a Broad Range of Coral Reef Ecosystems: Identifying Patterns and Underlying Causes (Coral Reef Ecosystem OA Impact)

Program:

Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability NSF-Wide Investment (SEES): Ocean Acidification (formerly CRI-OA) (SEES-OA)

Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB)

Lead Principal Investigator:

Anne L. Cohen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Samantha J. de Putron (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, BIOS)

Kristopher Karnauskas (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Daniel C. McCorkle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Ann M. Tarrant (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Contact:

Hannah Barkley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Kathryn E.F. Shamberger (Texas A&M University, TAMU)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Shannon Rauch (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2015-06-23

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Coral and algae cover, coral richness, and coral diversity from coral reef sites sampled by small boats in the Palauan archipelago from 2011-2013

Abstract:

Average coral and algae cover, coral richness, and coral diversity from 8 coral reef sites in Palau.

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2015-06-23	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.1575/1912/bco-dmo.520476.2	2019-12-30

Description

Average coral and algae cover, coral richness, and coral diversity from 8 coral reef sites in Palau.

For more information, see main article and supporting information (including figures and tables) from:
Barkley et al. (2015), DeCarlo et al. (2015), and Shamberger et al. (2014).

Methods & Sampling

Coral reef community data were collected from eight reef sites. At each site, five 50m transects were laid on the reef at 3m depth and a photograph of a 0.5m x 0.5m quadrat was taken every meter. All transects were conducted in 2010, except for those from Risong Bay, which were conducted in 2012.

Data Processing Description

Photographs of the benthic community were analyzed using Coral Point Count with Excel extensions. Benthic cover of each photograph was evaluated by randomly overlaying five crosses on each image and identifying the type of cover and taxa underneath each cross, with all corals identified to the genus level, for a total of 200 points evaluated per transect and 1000 points evaluated per site. Percent cover (coral, macroalgae, and crustose coralline algae) and community ecological indices (genera richness, Shannon diversity, and Shannon evenness) were calculated for each of the five transects per reef site.

See the supplementary information from Shamberger et al. (2014) for more information.

Data Files

File
coral_div_richness.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 1.13 KB) MD5:4af9391db9ba2fcd4265a72dac9b28df Primary data file for dataset ID 520476

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1041106
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1220529
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1031971

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
Palau_reefs_2011-13		2011-09-19	PICRC Small Boats	Anne L. Cohen (Principal Investigator)	data info

Instruments

Camera

Supplied Name: camera

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Camera

Acronym: camera

Community Identifier: http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/311/

Generic Description:

All types of photographic equipment including stills, video, film and digital systems.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
site_name	Sampling site name.	dimensionless	site
lat	Latitude of sampling location. North = positive values.	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude of sampling location. East = positive values.	decimal degrees	lon
omega_Ar	Average saturation state of seawater with respect to aragonite.	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
omega_Ar_err	Standard error of Omega_ar.	dimensionless	std_err
coral_cover_pcnt	Average percent coral cover.	percent (%)	no_bcodmo_term
coral_cover_err	Standard error of coral cover.	percent (%)	std_err
coral_richness	Average coral genera richness (number of genera observed).	genera per transect	no_bcodmo_term
coral_richness_err	Standard error of coral richness.	genera per transect	std_err
diversity	Average coral genera diversity (Shannon).	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
diversity_err	Standard error of coral diversity.	dimensionless	std_err
evenness	Average coral genera evenness (Shannon).	dimensionless	no_bcodmo_term
evenness_err	Standard error of coral evenness.	dimensionless	std_err
porites_cover_pcnt	Average Porites coral percent cover.	percent (%)	no_bcodmo_term
porites_cover_err	Standard error of Porites cover.	percent (%)	std_err
acropora_cover_pcnt	Average Acropora coral percent cover.	percent (%)	no_bcodmo_term
acropora_cover_err	Standard error of Acropora percent cover.	percent (%)	std_err
macroalgae_cover_pcnt	Average macroalgae percent cover.	percent (%)	no_bcodmo_term
macroalgae_cover_err	Standard error of macroalgae percent cover.	percent (%)	std_err
cca_cover_pcnt	Average crustose coralline algae (CCA) cover.	percent (%)	no_bcodmo_term
cca_cover_err	Standard error of CCA cover.	percent (%)	std_err