Dataset: PIPA Benthic Data

Name: Percent cover of benthic functional groups in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) from 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018
Published: 2022-01-11
Keywords: coral cover, Heatwave, coral reef, benthic, coral bleaching, recovery, biota, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.863410.1

Spatial Extent: N:-2.76065 E:-170.71316 S:-4.69979 W:-174.54745

Temporal Extent: 2002 - 2018

Project:

Skeletal Records of Coral Reef Bleaching in the Central Equatorial Pacific (Coral Bleaching Skeletal Records)

Principal Investigator:

Michael D. Fox (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI)

Co-Principal Investigator:

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

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Taylor Heyl (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

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

Version:

Version Date:

2022-01-11

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Percent cover of benthic functional groups in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) from 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018

Abstract:

This dataset includes percent cover of benthic functional groups in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA). Percent cover of reef-building coral was quantified using photoquadrat transects conducted during 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018 following standard Pacific coral reef monitoring protocols. Areas of study include: Phoenix Islands, Kiribati. Kanton Island (2.8 S, 171.6 W), Rawaki Island (3.7 S 170.7 W), Nikumaroro Island (4.7 S, 174.5 W), Orona Island (4.5 S, 172.2 W). These data were published in Fox et al., 2021 (DOI: 10.1029/2021GRL094128).

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Archival Copy

Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2022-01-11	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.863410.1	2022-11-29

Methods & Sampling

Percent cover of reef-building coral was quantified using photoquadrat transects conducted during 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018 following standard Pacific coral reef monitoring protocols. Data from 2002 and 2005 were obtained from Obura and Mangubhai, 2011. These data were published in Fox et al. (2021).

Data Processing Description

Image/data processing:
There were 2 programs used over the different years. 2009-2015 were analyzed using Photogrid 1.0 and 2018 was analyzed with the more recent (but similar) software, Coralnet (www.coralnet.ucsd.edu) using manual point identification. In both programs, data were generated using 100 randomly stratified points per image and all points were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic resolution.

BCO-DMO Processing:
- Adjusted field/parameter names to comply with BCO-DMO naming conventions
- Added a conventional header with dataset name, PI names, version date
- Missing data identifier ‘NA’ replaced with 'nd' (BCO-DMO's default missing data identifier)

Data Files

File
PIPA_benthic.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 7.23 KB) MD5:1f0c84e456322ef22cb57a92b27f651e Primary data file for dataset ID 863410

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1737311

Deployments

None available yet

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
Island	name of island	unitless	region
Year	survey year	unitless	year
Site	site name	unitless	site
Site_Num	site code	unitless	station
Latitude	latitude of site North	decimal degrees	lat
Longitude	longitude of site East (West is negative)	decimal degrees	lon
N_pics	number of images	unitless	number
Coral	percent coral cover	percent	percent_cover
SD_Coral	standard deviation of coral percent cover	percent	std_dev
Notes	relevant information	unitless	comment

Database

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Dataset: PIPA Benthic Data