http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/986577
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508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
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2025-10-13
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Bocas del Toro 2021 sea urchin and coral recruit monitoring from August to September 2021 (Coral microbiome resilience project)
2025-10-13
publication
2025-10-13
revision
BCO-DMO Linked Data URI
2025-10-13
creation
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/986577
Andrew Altieri
University of Florida
principalInvestigator
Rachel Collin
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
principalInvestigator
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
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Cite this dataset as: (2025) Bocas del Toro 2021 sea urchin and coral recruit monitoring from August to September 2021 (Coral microbiome resilience project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2025-10-13 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/986577 [access date]
Bocas del Toro 2021 sea urchin and coral recruit monitoring Dataset Description: Methods and Sampling: <p>Ecological surveys were conducted in the Bahía Almirante region of Bocas del Toro, Panama, during August and September 2021. The Bahía Almirante is a semi-enclosed lagoon that has experienced widespread ecological degradation from anthropogenic stressors such as eutrophication, tourism development, overfishing, and hypoxia, making it an ideal system for monitoring the resilience of coral reef communities under high levels of environmental stress.</p>
<p>Ten sites within the Bahía were selected for monitoring due to their previously documented responses to hypoxia. Surveys were performed on shallow coral reefs at three depths characterized by distinct coral and benthic community compositions: 10, 20, and 40 ft (3, 6, and 12 m). All data were collected visually in situ on SCUBA by four observers familiar with coral and benthic reef surveys.</p>
<p>Both coral recruits and urchin species were counted at ten sites within fixed 50 × 50 cm quadrats placed along a 50 m transect at each of the three depths. Coral recruit counts provide insight into coral recovery and continued input of new individuals into a population. Coral recruits were defined as corals less than 4 cm in diameter, unless visibly dying or receding, and were counted by observers within 30 × 30 cm portions of the fixed 50 × 50 cm quadrats. Coral recruits were identified to genus, as visible identification to species at small sizes is not feasible.</p>
<p>Urchins were simultaneously monitored because they can be highly abundant at some sites and depths in Bocas del Toro and are important grazers that can also drive high levels of bioerosion. In addition, urchins can have density-dependent effects on coral recruitment. All urchins, including <em>Echinometra viridis</em> and <em>Diadema antillarum</em>, within 50 × 50 cm quadrats were counted and identified non-destructively by the same observers.</p>
Funding provided by NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) Award Number: OCE-2048914 Award URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award?AWD_ID=2048914
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Andrew Altieri
University of Florida
305-250-8840
365 Weil Hall PO Box 116580
Gainesville
FL
32611-6580
USA
andrew.altieri@essie.ufl.edu
pointOfContact
Rachel Collin
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
202-633-4700 ext 28766
collinr@si.edu
pointOfContact
asNeeded
Dataset Version: 1
Unknown
Date
Observer
Site
Site_code
Latitude
Longitude
Depth_ft
Depth_m
Meter_mark
Coral_Agaricia
Coral_Porites
Coral_Siderastrea
Coral_Stephanocoenia
Coral_Scolymia
Coral_Millepora
Coral_Orbicella
Coral_Colpolphyllia
Coral_Brain_unknown
Coral_Madracis
Coral_Helioseris
Coral_Montastrea
Coral_Favia
Coral_Acropora
Urchin_Echinometra_viridis
Urchin_Lytechinus_spp
Urchin_Diadema_antillarum
theme
None, User defined
date
person name
site
Site_ID
latitude
longitude
depth
transect_station
count
featureType
BCO-DMO Standard Parameters
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Access Constraints: none. Use Constraints: Please follow guidelines at: http://www.bco-dmo.org/terms-use Distribution liability: Under no circumstances shall BCO-DMO be liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials in this data submission. If you are dissatisfied with any materials in this data submission your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use.
Collaborative Research: Biodiversity and resilience of corals and their microbiomes in response to ocean deoxygenation
https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/project/838054
Collaborative Research: Biodiversity and resilience of corals and their microbiomes in response to ocean deoxygenation
<p><em>NSF Award Abstract:</em><br />
The world's oceans are facing the threat of deoxygenation - events of low dissolved oxygen insufficient for marine life and healthy ecosystems - which is accelerating along with other global crises including climate change and ocean acidification. The pace of these changes can lead to rapid shifts in the structure of marine communities due to changes in the distribution, abundance, and diversity of species. This collaborative project is among the first to examine the consequences of deoxygenation on coral reefs, which are sentinel ecosystems for studying ecological responses to global change because of their importance to human society, sensitivity to stress, and intricate relationships among their inhabitants. Specifically, the research team investigates why and how some coral species are more tolerant than others and the role that bacteria associated with the corals have in such tolerance. This predictive understanding is important to support conservation and management efforts by identifying stress-tolerant coral species and establishing indicators for assessment of hypoxia stress. The project provides training for multiple undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Findings from this project are disseminated through undergraduate and graduate courses taught at the University of Florida, a teacher training program at the Bocas del Toro Research Station at STRI in Panama, a workshop in Panama to build a community of scientists and informed practitioners, and webinars, toolkits, and other resources communicated through established networks of coral conservation and management practitioners.</p>
<p>Understanding the responses of coral reefs to ocean deoxygenation is limited to a few post hoc assessments of how unanticipated hypoxic events have impacted macrofauna. This project employs a predictive approach to examine the resilience of coral reef communities to ocean deoxygenation by examining both corals and their associated microbiomes. Complimentary manipulative laboratory and field experiments and surveys along natural gradients of hypoxic stress are being used to answer the following three fundamental questions about how variation in the tolerance of corals and their microbiomes predicts the resilience of reefs to deoxygenation: (1) How does the physiological response of the coral to hypoxia predict community shifts in the microbiome with deoxygenation? (2) To what degree do corals and their microbiomes show evidence of acclimatization to reduced oxygen, and how do these functional shifts confer increased resistance to subsequent hypoxic stress? (3) How are the feedbacks between coral hosts and their microbiomes apparent in the recovery of coral communities from hypoxia and patterns of community structure at the seascape scale? This project aims at developing a mechanistic and predictive understanding of coral reef community responses to ocean deoxygenation by examining stability and resilience at two levels of ecological organization: the assemblage of coral species at the reef scale, and the assemblage of microbes at the holobiont scale. Moreover, this study examines how those responses are coupled by feedbacks at the colony scale through coral physiological responses and microbial functional shifts.</p>
<p>This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.</p>
Coral microbiome resilience
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2021-09-12
Caribbean Coast of Panama 9 N 82 W
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BCO-DMO catalogue of parameters from Bocas del Toro 2021 sea urchin and coral recruit monitoring from August to September 2021 (Coral microbiome resilience project)
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
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http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987669.rdf
Name: Date
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Date that survey was completed.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987670.rdf
Name: Observer
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Name of observer making the counts.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987671.rdf
Name: Site
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Indicates which of the ten sites the observations were made.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987672.rdf
Name: Site_code
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Three letter code for the site.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987673.rdf
Name: Latitude
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Latititude of site in decimal degrees; a positive value indicates a northern coordinate.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987674.rdf
Name: Longitude
Units: decimal degrees
Description: <p>Longitude of the site in decimal degrees; a negative value indicates a western coordinate.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987675.rdf
Name: Depth_ft
Units: feet (ft)
Description: <p>Reef depth of transect in feet.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987676.rdf
Name: Depth_m
Units: meters (m)
Description: <p>Reef depth of transect in meters.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987677.rdf
Name: Meter_mark
Units: unitless
Description: <p>Meter mark along transect.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987678.rdf
Name: Coral_Agaricia
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4 cm from the coral Agaricia.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987679.rdf
Name: Coral_Porites
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Porites.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987680.rdf
Name: Coral_Siderastrea
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Siderastrea.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987681.rdf
Name: Coral_Stephanocoenia
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Stehanocoenia.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987682.rdf
Name: Coral_Scolymia
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Scolymia.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987683.rdf
Name: Coral_Millepora
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Millepora.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987684.rdf
Name: Coral_Orbicella
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Orbicella.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987685.rdf
Name: Coral_Colpolphyllia
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Colpophyllia.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987686.rdf
Name: Coral_Brain_unknown
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral "unknown Brain coral".</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987687.rdf
Name: Coral_Madracis
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Madracis.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987688.rdf
Name: Coral_Helioseris
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Helioseris.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987689.rdf
Name: Coral_Montastrea
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Montastrea.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987690.rdf
Name: Coral_Favia
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Favia.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987691.rdf
Name: Coral_Acropora
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals < 4cm from the coral Acropora.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987692.rdf
Name: Urchin_Echinometra_viridis
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals from the urchin species Echinometra viridis.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987693.rdf
Name: Urchin_Lytechinus_spp
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals from the urchin genus Lytechinus.</p>
http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset-parameter/987694.rdf
Name: Urchin_Diadema_antillarum
Units: count
Description: <p>Count of individuals from the urchin species Diadema antillarum.</p>
GB/NERC/BODC > British Oceanographic Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, United Kingdom
Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
Unavailable
508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
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https://osprey.bco-dmo.org/dataset/986577/data/download
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<p>Ecological surveys were conducted in the Bahía Almirante region of Bocas del Toro, Panama, during August and September 2021. The Bahía Almirante is a semi-enclosed lagoon that has experienced widespread ecological degradation from anthropogenic stressors such as eutrophication, tourism development, overfishing, and hypoxia, making it an ideal system for monitoring the resilience of coral reef communities under high levels of environmental stress.</p>
<p>Ten sites within the Bahía were selected for monitoring due to their previously documented responses to hypoxia. Surveys were performed on shallow coral reefs at three depths characterized by distinct coral and benthic community compositions: 10, 20, and 40 ft (3, 6, and 12 m). All data were collected visually in situ on SCUBA by four observers familiar with coral and benthic reef surveys.</p>
<p>Both coral recruits and urchin species were counted at ten sites within fixed 50 × 50 cm quadrats placed along a 50 m transect at each of the three depths. Coral recruit counts provide insight into coral recovery and continued input of new individuals into a population. Coral recruits were defined as corals less than 4 cm in diameter, unless visibly dying or receding, and were counted by observers within 30 × 30 cm portions of the fixed 50 × 50 cm quadrats. Coral recruits were identified to genus, as visible identification to species at small sizes is not feasible.</p>
<p>Urchins were simultaneously monitored because they can be highly abundant at some sites and depths in Bocas del Toro and are important grazers that can also drive high levels of bioerosion. In addition, urchins can have density-dependent effects on coral recruitment. All urchins, including <em>Echinometra viridis</em> and <em>Diadema antillarum</em>, within 50 × 50 cm quadrats were counted and identified non-destructively by the same observers.</p>
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* Missing data values indicated with "NA" values in the data file have been replaced with blank values.
* Special characters and blank spaces within parameter names have been replaced with underscores ("_").
* Depth values were originally provided as feet (Depth_ft). While this original column has been retained, an additional column containing depth in meters has been added to the data file (Depth_m). Depth_m = Depth_ft/3.28084 (rounded to 4 decimal places).
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Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
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508-289-2009
WHOI MS#36
Woods Hole
MA
02543
USA
info@bco-dmo.org
http://www.bco-dmo.org
Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm
For questions regarding this resource, please contact BCO-DMO via the email address provided.
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