This dataset includes the status report (PDF and MS Word) and raw survey data (MS Excel) made in 1996 and 2002. Survey sites inlcude all islands of American Samoa, although remote atolls of Swains and Rose were not made in 2002. Surveys were also made in the country of Western Samoa.
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Filenames are descriptive (ie, the appendix number). Each file is self-descriptive.
Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa
Provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the coral ecosystems in 2002.
Briefly: Reef Fish Communities: Visual census techniques along five replicate 50mX3m transects along the reef slope (depth=10m).
Benthic Communities: Point-based method for habitat description, used to estimate the percent coverage of each substratum type on each of the fish transects. Coral bleaching surveys followed a standard form developed by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
Key Macroinvertebrates: A separate pass of the transects was conducted to quantify the abundance and size of the two key macroinvertebrates: giant clams and crown-of-thorns starfish. Each individual was counted, its size measured and recorded on underwater paper.
Green, A.L. 2002 Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 85pp
Green, A.L. 1996a Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 120pp
Green, A.L. 1996b A preliminary assessment of the status of the coral reefs on Upolu Island, Western Samoa. Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 12pp
Green, A.L. 1996c Coral reefs of Swains Island, American Samoa. Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 2pp.
Green, A.L. 1996d Spatial, temporal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use by coral reef fishes (Family Labridae) Marine Ecology Progress Series 133: 1-11
Green, A., Craig, P. 1999 Population size and structure of giant clams at Rose Atoll, an important refuge in the Samoan Archipelago. Coral Reefs 18: 205-211
Green, A., Hunter, C. 1998 A preliminary survey of the coral reef resources in the Tutuila Unit of the National Park of American Samoa. Final report to the U.S. National Park Service, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 42pp.
Green, A.L., Birkeland, C.E., Randall, R.H. 1999 Twenty years of disturbance and change in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa. Pacific Science 53(4): 376400.
Green, A.L., Birkeland, C.E., Randall, R.H., Smith, B.D., Wilkins, S. 1997a. 78 years of coral reef degradation in Pago Pago Harbour: a quantitative record. Proc. 8th Int Coral Reef Sym 2: 1883-1888.
Green, A.L., Burgett, J., Molina, M., Palawski, D., Gabrielson, P. 1997b The impact of a ship grounding and associated fuel spill at Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, American Samoa. A report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii, 60 pp.
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