Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Dr. Craig Mundy Publication_Date: Unpublished material Title: 1995 Quantitative Survey of the Corals of American Samoa (NODC Accession 0001972) Online_Linkage: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov Description: Abstract: A survey of coral communities was carried out in the American Samoa Archipelago to assess the current status of coral reefs and provide a rigorous quantitative baseline dataset for future monitoring of these reefs. Five replicate belt transects were used to estimate the size structure, density and percent cover of corals at 29 locations around Tutuila and Manu'a Islands during October and November, 1995. Purpose: Provide a status of the reefs for scientific and managerial purposes. Supplemental_Information: NOAA Supplemental: 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: PDF, Quattro Pro, MS Word and Excel Online_size: 11520 kbytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001972 Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 199510 Ending_Date: 199511 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Unknown Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -170.7896 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -169.4449 North_Bounding_Coordinate: -14.1618 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: coral population size structure Theme_Keyword: coral colony density Theme_Keyword: coral percent cover Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Numeric Data Sets > Biology Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef Monitoring and Assessment > Reef Fish Census > Belt Transect Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: biota Theme_Keyword: 002 Theme_Keyword: oceans Theme_Keyword: 014 Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: South Pacific Place_Keyword: American Samoa Place_Keyword: Tutuila Island Place_Keyword: Manu'a Islands Place_Keyword: Ta'u Island Place_Keyword: Ofu Island Place_Keyword: Olosega Island Place_Keyword: Nu'uuli Place_Keyword: Fatumafuti Place_Keyword: Leone Place_Keyword: Fagatele Place_Keyword: Fagafue Place_Keyword: Fagasa Place_Keyword: Vatia Place_Keyword: Afuli Place_Keyword: Fagamalo Cove Place_Keyword: Faga Place_Keyword: Lepula Place_Keyword: Olesega Elementary School Place_Keyword: Ofu Village Place_Keyword: Sili Place_Keyword: Asaga Place_Keyword: Onesosopo Place_Keyword: Aua Place_Keyword: Faga'alu Place_Keyword: Leloaloa Place_Keyword: Utelei Place_Keyword: Aunu'u Island Place_Keyword: Fagaitua Place_Keyword: Amanave Place_Keyword: Masefau Place_Keyword: Faga'alu Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > American Samoa > American Samoa (14S170W0000) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > American Samoa > American Samoa > American Samoa (14S170W0000) Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region Place_Keyword: AmSam Stratum: Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Stratum_Keyword: Benthic Access_Constraints: None Use_Constraints: NOAA and NODC would appreciate recognition as the resource from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these data. Point_of_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Craig Mundy Contact_Organization: University of Tasmania Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: Private Bag 49 City: Hobart State_or_Province: Tasmania Postal_Code: 0000 Country: Australia Contact_Voice_Telephone: (03)6227-7232 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Craig.Mundy@utas.edu.au Data_Set_Credit: Dept Marine & Wildlife Resources, American Samoa Native_Data_Set_Environment: PDF, Quattro Pro, MS Word and Excel Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: see lineage, process step Completeness_Report: none Lineage: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Publication_Date: 2002 Title: Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago Publication_Information: Publication_Place: PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799 Publisher: Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: Unknown Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green, 2002 Source_Contribution: Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Pago Pago, American Samoa Publisher: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799 Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: Unknown Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green, 1996 Source_Contribution: Status of the coral reefs Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: C. N. Mundy Publication_Date: 1991 Title: A critical evaluation of the Line Intercept Transect methodology for surveying sessile coral reef benthos Other_Citation_Details: Msc Thesis. James Cook University of North Queensland. 127pp. Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1991 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Mundy, 1991 Source_Contribution: critical evaluation Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: C. N. Mundy Publication_Date: 1996 Title: A Quantitative Survey of the Corals of American Samoa: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Pago Pago, American Samoa Publisher: Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799 Other_Citation_Details: 33pp Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1996 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Mundy, 1996 Source_Contribution: Quantitative Survey Process_Step: Process_Description: Field Surveys: Quantitative surveys of hard corals were carried out at 29 sites around Tutuila and the Manu'a Islands during October and November 1995. These surveys were designed to complement reef fish surveys currently underway in the American Samoa Archipelago (Green, in prep). At each site five replicate 20m x 0.5m belt transects were surveyed on the reef slope at 10m depth, except at Fagaitua where only three transects were surveyed. All transects were located randomly within sites as it has been shown that random transects within fixed sites are as effective and more efficient for long-term monitoring of corals than fixed transects (Mundy 1991; see also Green 1989). In addition to reef slope surveys, coral communities were surveyed at two sites on the reef flat at Manu'a Islands (Olosega and Ofu) and at two sites on the reef flat at Tutuila (Fatumafuti and Nu'uuli). A single lagoon site was surveyed on Tutuila at Faga'alu at approximately 4m depth. Detailed descriptions of all sites and transect locations can be found in Green (in prep). Each transect was surveyed by laying a 20m fibre tape close to the substratum parallel to the reef edge. A coral was considered to be within the transect if the centre of the colony lay within 25cm of either side of the tape. All corals within the belt were identified to species where possible, and the maximum diameter of each colony was measured and placed in one of seven size classes as shown in Table 1. Table 1. Size categories and corresponding colony size used to record size of colonies in belt transects. Size class Colony size 1 <= 5cm2 > 5 cm and <= 10 cm3 > 10 cm and <= 20 cm4 > 20 cm and <= 40 cm5 > 40 cm and <= 80 cm6 > 80 cm and <= 160 cm7 > 160 cm. Data analysis: Transect data were used to estimate colony density, population size structure, and percent cover for each species at each site. The midpoint of each size class was used to calculate the approximate area of each colony. Percent cover was calculated by expressing the sum of the areas for each species as a proportion of total transect area (10m2). Multivariate analyses were used to identify patterns in coral community structure around the islands of American Samoa. Cluster analysis (flexible UPGMA) and Multi-dimensional scaling (non-metric) (MDS) were used to test for effects of habitat (reef flat vs. lagoon vs. reef slope) and exposure (NW, NE, SW, SE, Manu'a; on coral community structure. Cluster analyses and MDS were based on Bray-Curtis similarity matrices using species densities (mean number of colonies per site) and the average percent cover of each species at each site. 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. 1996 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. Mundy, C.N. 1991. A critical evaluation of the Line Intercept Transect methodology for surveying sessile coral reef benthos. Msc Thesis. James Cook University of North Queensland. 127pp.Mundy, C.N. 1996. A Quantitative Survey of the Corals of American Samoa: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 33pp. Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Green, 2002 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Green, 1996 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Mundy, 1991 Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Mundy, 1996 Process_Date: Unknown Process_Contact: Contact_Information: Contact_Person_Primary: Contact_Person: Dr. Craig Mundy Contact_Organization: University of Tasmania Contact_Position: Biologist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing Address: Private Bag 49 City: Hobart State_or_Province: Tasmania Postal_Code: 0000 Country: Australia Contact_Voice_Telephone: (03)6227-7232 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Craig.Mundy@utas.edu.au Entity_and_Attribute_Information: Overview_Description: Entity_and_Attribute_Overview: files are found in directory ../../dataFILENAME FORMAT HISTORY CONTENT App_raw1.wb1 Quattro Pro Original Raw Data App_raw1.xls MS Excel Copy sameApp_raw1.csv ASCII CSV Copy sameSamoa201995.pdf PDF Original ReportSamoa201995.doc MS DOC Copy sameSamoa201995.txt ASCII Text Copy sameSite_Locations.xls MS Excel Original LocationsSite_Locations.csv ASCII CSV Copy sameNote, the Site_Locations.xls was acquired from the dataset(A.Green, 1996). 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