Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: Dr. Alison Green Publication_Date: Unpublished material Title: 2002 Status of coral reefs on the main volcanic islands of American Samoa: a resurvey of long term monitoring sites including benthic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 0001973) Online_Linkage: https://accession.nodc.noaa.gov/1973 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 include 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: 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: MS Word and Excel Online_size: 15434 kbytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0001973 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: 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 > Mapping > Habitat Mapping 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: Western Samoa Place_Keyword: Ofu Place_Keyword: Ofu Village Place_Keyword: Asaga Place_Keyword: Hurricane House Place_Keyword: Vaoto Lodge lagoon Place_Keyword: Olosega Place_Keyword: Olosega Village Place_Keyword: Sili Place_Keyword: Ta'u Place_Keyword: Faga Place_Keyword: Lepula Place_Keyword: Afuli Place_Keyword: Fagamalo Place_Keyword: Aunu'u Place_Keyword: Tutuila Place_Keyword: Fagaitua Place_Keyword: Fatumafuti Place_Keyword: Nu'uuli Place_Keyword: Fagatele Place_Keyword: Leone Place_Keyword: Amanave Place_Keyword: Faga'alu Place_Keyword: Onesosopo Place_Keyword: Aua Place_Keyword: Utulei Place_Keyword: Leloaloa Place_Keyword: Aoa Place_Keyword: Masefau Place_Keyword: Vatia Place_Keyword: Fagasa Place_Keyword: Fagafue Place_Keyword: Fagamalo Place_Keyword: Swains Island Place_Keyword: Rose Atoll Place_Keyword: Upolu Place_Keyword: Lefaga Place_Keyword: Sa'anapu Place_Keyword: Ewa Place_Keyword: Fagaloa Place_Keyword: Faleasi'u Place_Keyword: Lefaga Place_Keyword: Poutari Place_Keyword: Vaitele 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. 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: Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago Other_Citation_Details: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources 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: Green (1996) Source_Contribution: coral reef status report Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Publication_Date: 1996 Title: A preliminary assessment of the status of the coral reefs on Upolu Island, Western Samoa Other_Citation_Details: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 12pp 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: Green (1996) Source_Contribution: coral reef status preliminary assessment Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Coral reefs of Swains Island, American Samoa Other_Citation_Details: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources, PO Box 3730, Pago Pago, American Samoa. 96799, 2pp. 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: Green (1996) Source_Contribution: coral reef study Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Publication_Date: 1996 Title: Spatial, temporal and ontogenetic patterns of habitat use by coral reef fishes (Family Labridae) Series_Information: Series_name: Marine Ecology Progress Issue_Identification: Series 133 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: Green (1996) Source_Contribution: study of coral reef fish habitat use patterns Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. Green Originator: P. Craig Publication_Date: 1999 Title: Population size and structure of giant clams at Rose Atoll, an important refuge in the Samoan Archipelago Series_Information: Series_name: Coral Reefs Issue_Identification: 18: 205-211 Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1999 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and Craig (1999) Source_Contribution: giant clam population study Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. Green Originator: C. Hunter Publication_Date: 1999 Title: A preliminary survey of the coral reef resources in the Tutuila Unit of the National Park of American Samoa Other_Citation_Details: Final report to the U.S. National Park Service, Pago Pago, American Samoa, 42pp. Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1998 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and Hunter (1998) Source_Contribution: coral reef resource study Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Originator: C. E. Birkeland Originator: R. H. Randall Publication_Date: 1999 Title: Twenty years of disturbance and change in Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa Series_Information: Series_name: Pacific Science Issue_Identification: 53:4 Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1999 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and others (1999) Source_Contribution: Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary study Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Originator: C. E. Birkeland Originator: R. H. Randall Originator: B. D. Smith Originator: S. Wilkins Publication_Date: 1997 Title: 78 years of coral reef degradation in Pago Pago Harbour Series_Information: Series_name: a quantitative record. Issue_Identification: Proc. Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1997 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and others (1997) Source_Contribution: coral reef degradation study Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Originator: J. Burgett Originator: M. Molina Originator: D. Palawski Originator: P. Gabrielson Publication_Date: 1997 Title: The impact of a ship grounding and associated fuel spill at Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, American Samoa Other_Citation_Details: A report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Honolulu, Hawaii, 60 pp. Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1997 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green and others (1997) Source_Contribution: ship grounding and oil spill impact study Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: R. A. Kinzie, III Originator: R. H. Snider Publication_Date: 1978 Title: A simulation study of coral reef survey methods Series_Information: Series_name: Coral reefs: research methos. UNESCO, eds: Dr.R. Stoddart and R.E. Issue_Identification: Johannes. Larger_Work_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: UNESCO Originator: Dr.R. Stoddart, ed. Originator: R.E. Johannes, ed. Publication_Date: 1978 Title: Coral Reefs: Research Methods Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1978 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Kinzie (1978) Source_Contribution: coral reef survey study methods Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: E. Pielou Publication_Date: 1966 Title: The measurement of diversity in different types of biological collections Series_Information: Series_name: J. Theor. Biol. Issue_Identification: 13:131-144 Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1966 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Pielou (1966) Source_Contribution: diversity of measurement in biological collections Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: A. L. Green Publication_Date: 2002 Title: Status of the coral reefs of the Samoan Archipelago Other_Citation_Details: Report to the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 2002 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Green (2002) Source_Contribution: coral reef status report Source_Information: Source_Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: S. Siegel Publication_Date: 1956 Title: Nonparametric Statistics for the BehavioralSciences Publication_Information: Publication_Place: New York Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company Type_of_Source_Media: paper Source_Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Single_Date/Time: Calendar_Date: 1956 Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date Source_Citation_Abbreviation: Siegel, 1956 Source_Contribution: statistics text 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, 85ppGreen, 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, 120ppGreen, 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, 12ppGreen, 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: 1-11Green, A., Craig, P. 1999 Population size and structure of giant clams at Rose Atoll, an important refuge in the Samoan Archipelago. Coral Reefs 18: 205-211Green, 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. 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