Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Dr. Alison Green Publication_Date: Unknown Title: 2002 Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic communities, fish communities, and key macroinvertebrates (NODC Accession 0001976) Series_Information: Series_name: None Issue_Identification: None Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Silver Spring, Maryland, USA Publisher: US National Oceanographic Data Center Online_Linkage: https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/0001976 Description: Abstract: This study demonstrates the important role that long term monitoring programs can play in understanding the natural variability and long term trends in the coral reefs of American Samoa. One benefit of this study is that it provides an overview of the condition of the reefs on all the main volcanic islands simultaneously. It also provides a broad scale perspective for understanding the results of the site dedicated monitoring programs in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Pago Pago Harbour (Aua transect: see below), which provide a much longer term perspective on the reefs of Tutuila (85 and 25 years respectively). 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. Purpose: Provide a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the coral ecosystems in 2002. Supplemental_Information: NOAASupplemental: Entry_ID: Unknown Sensor_Name: SCUBA Source_Name: manual Project_Campaign: American Samoa Coral Ecosystem Assessment Originating_Center: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Storage_Medium: MS Word and Excel Online_size: 15434 kbytes Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 19941001 Ending_Date: 20021231 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -172.90 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -168.1333 North_Bounding_Coordinate: -11.03 South_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.3662 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NCEI Geoportal Filter Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Coastal studies Theme_Keyword: coral reef Theme_Keyword: fish species list Theme_Keyword: mean adult species richness of each of the 12 most abundant fish families Theme_Keyword: mean adult density of each of the 12 most abundant fish families Theme_Keyword: mean adult biomass of each of the 12 most abundant fish families Theme_Keyword: mean density of most abundant juvenile fishes Theme_Keyword: substratum cover (percent) by category Theme_Keyword: mean density of crown of thorns starfish Theme_Keyword: mean density of the most abundant species of butterflyfish Theme_Keyword: observations of coral bleaching on the reef slope Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: biota Theme_Keyword: 002 Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Numeric Data Sets > Biology Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics > Predation > Coral Predation > Crown-of-thorns Starfish Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Reef Fish Census Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Marine Biology > Fish Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Coral Diseases > Bleaching Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Coral Cover Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: South Pacific, Place_Keyword: American Samoa, Place_Keyword: Western Samoa, Place_Keyword: Ofu,Ofu Village, Place_Keyword: Ofu,Asaga, Place_Keyword: Ofu,Hurricane House, Place_Keyword: Ofu,Hurricane House,lagoon, Place_Keyword: Ofu,Vaoto Lodge,lagoon, Place_Keyword: Olosega,Olosega Village, Place_Keyword: Olosega,Sili, Place_Keyword: Ta'u,Faga, Place_Keyword: Ta'u,Lepula, Place_Keyword: Ta'u,Afuli, Place_Keyword: Ta'u,Fagamalo, Place_Keyword: Aunu'u,Aunu'u, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Fagaitua, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Fatumafuti, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Nu'uuli, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Fagatele, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Leone, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Amanave, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Faga'alu, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Onesosopo, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Aua, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Utulei, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Leloaloa, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Aoa, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Masefau, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Vatia, Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Fagasa , Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Fagafue , Place_Keyword: Tutuila,Fagamalo, Place_Keyword: Swains Island, Place_Keyword: Rose Atoll, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Lefaga, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Sa'anapu, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Ewa, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Fagaloa, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Faleasi'u, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Lefaga, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Poutari, Place_Keyword: Upolu, Vaitele, Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Western Samoa > Western Samoa (13S172W0000) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > Western Samoa Reefs > Western Samoa (13S172W0000) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Manu'a Group > Ofu (14S169W0002) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Manu'a Group > Olosega (14S169W0016) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Ofu Island > Ofu (14S169W0002) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > Olosega Island > Olosega (14S169W0016) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > Rose Atoll (14S168W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > Ta'u Island (14S169W0012) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > Tutuila Island (14S170W0016) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Manu'a Group > Ta'u Island (14S169W0012) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > American Samoa (14S170W0000) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > 'Upolu Island > 'Upolu Island (13S171W0002) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > Western Samoa > 'Upolu Island > 'Upolu Island (13S171W0002) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > American Samoa (14S170W0000) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > Rose Atoll (14S168W0001) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > Swains Atoll (11S171W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > Swains Atoll (11S171W0001) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > Tutuila Island (14S170W0016) Stratum: Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Stratum_Keyword: Benthic Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: Dataset credit required Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Alison Green Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: PO Box 1379 City: Townsville State_or_Province: Queensland Postal_Code: 4810 Country: Australia Contact_Voice_Telephone: (+61-7) 4729-8490 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: agreen@tnc.org Data_Set_Credit: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Native_Data_Set_Environment: MS Word and Excel Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: see lineage, process step Completeness_Report: none Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: An extensive description is given in Chapter "Methods", page 23: ../../data/originals/AlisonGreens2002report.pdf (original) ../../data/originals/AlisonGreens2002report.doc (copy) ../../data/ASCII/AlisonGreens2002report.txt (copy) 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. Process_Date: Unknown Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Alison Green Contact_Organization: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: PO Box 1379 City: Townsville State_or_Province: Queensland Postal_Code: 4810 Country: Australia Contact_Voice_Telephone: (+61-7) 4729-8490 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: agreen@tnc.org Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: The original files were placed in ../../data/originals ASCII copies (either text or comma separated version) are in ../../data/ASCII. 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