Identification_Information: Citation: Citation_Information: Originator: S.L. Coles Originator: H. Bolick Originator: J. Marchetti Originator: A. Montgomery Originator: Hawaii Biological Survey Originator: Bishop Museum Originator: Honolulu, Hawaii Publication_Date: 2007 Title: Assessment of Invasiveness of the Orange Keyhole Sponge Mycale Armata in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii Based on Surveys 2005-2006, Year 2 of Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative (NODC Accession 0033380) Publication_Information: Publication_Place: Honolulu, Hawaii Publisher: Bishop Museum Online_Linkage: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0033380 Description: Abstract: The Orange Keyhole Sponge, Mycale armata Thiele, was unknown in Hawaii prior to 1996. It was first reported in Pearl Harbor and has been reported in low abundance from a few coral reef locations near harbors, but in Kaneohe Bay it has become a major component of the benthic biota in the south bay in the last 5-10 years. An initial study was conducted in 2004-2005 to determine Mycale armatas distribution, abundance throughout the bay, its growth rates on marked permanent quadrats, and whether mechanical removal would be an effective management technique for its control (Coles and Bolick 2006). Findings in the first year from 190 manta board surveys and 19 quantitative photo-transects on 18 reefs throughout Kaneohe Bay indicated that the sponge had its greatest abundance in the south bay near the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) pier and Coconut Island. Despite the apparent visual dominance of this conspicuous sponge on many reefs, its maximum coverage measured on any transect in 2004-2005 was 9.2% of the bottom, with a mean of two transects at this site of 6.5%, and sponge was substantially less than coral coverage at all sites. However, measurement of changes in sponge area on ten permanent quadrats photographed quarterly throughout the year indicated a significant average increase in sponge of 13%. Attempts to mechanically remove sponge on ten other permanent quadrats was very time-consuming, requiring up to an equivalent of 22 hr m-2 for removal, and sponge regrew an significant average of 10% during the year following removal. The study was continued for a second year to determine whether changes in sponge coverage and distribution in the bay could be detected, whether the first year's rates of increase in sponge cover on permanent quadrats would continue, and whether a more effective method of sponge control could be devised. Photo-transects repeated at 11 of the 19 sites from Year 1 indicated increased sponge cover at all sites with significant increases at 7 of the 11 sites, and highest sponge coverage still occurring in the vicinity of Coconut Island. The permanent control photo-quadrats remaining from the first year were re-photographed quarterly and showed a further non-significant increase of 1.7% during Year 2. Re-growth of sponge on the remaining removal quadrats averaged a non-significant increase of 6.3%. Four more photoquadrats were deployed in March 2006 and sponge surfaces on two of these were mechanically removed, followed by injection of the sponge with air delivered by a 10 cm long bone necrosis needle. This treatment resulted in mean reduction from initial values of sponge cover of up to 73% a month later. Four more quadrats were deployed in May and these were treated by air injection alone, which showed little visible effect one month later. Sponge on these quadrats were re-injected with air, and one month later showed mean reductions in sponge of 57%. Some regrowth of sponge occurred on these removal quadrats, resulting in a net average reduction of 42% below pretreatment conditions for the five of the six quadrats that remained by the end of the study. Overall, the two-year study suggests that growth and spread of Mycale armata on Kaneohe Bay reefs and may now be slowly but steadily extending beyond its area of highest concentration in the south bay. The air injection method may provide a means for reducing the range expansion and impact of the sponge if substantial resources are directed toward controlling this highly invasive species. Before a large-scale control effort is considered, a pilot study of reducing the sponge by air injection should be conducted and results monitored to determine the effectiveness of this means of control in both the area of highest sponge abundance and at the boundary of present sponge occurrence. Purpose: To determine Mycale armata's distribution, abundance throughout the bay, its growth rates on permanent quadrats, and whether mechanical removal would be an effective management technique for its control. Supplemental_Information: NOAASupplemental:Entry_ID: Unknown Sensor_Name: SCUBA, digital camera Source_Name: manual Project_Campaign: Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative Originating_Center: Bishop Museum Storage_Medium: Excel, PDF, MS Word, JPEG Online_size: 848751 kilobytes Resource Description: NODC Accession Number 0033380 Time_Period_of_Content: Time_Period_Information: Range_of_Dates/Times: Beginning_Date: 2005 Ending_Date: 2006 Currentness_Reference: ground condition Status: Progress: Complete Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None Planned Spatial_Domain: Bounding_Coordinates: West_Bounding_Coordinate: -157.852 East_Bounding_Coordinate: -157.763 North_Bounding_Coordinate: 21.510 South_Bounding_Coordinate: 21.412 Keywords: Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: NCEI Geoportal Filter Theme_Keyword: CoRIS_Metadata Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Theme_Keyword: Biological survey Theme_Keyword: coastal studies Theme_Keyword: coral reef Theme_Keyword: taxa Theme_Keyword: marine organisms Theme_Keyword: coral species Theme_Keyword: algae species Theme_Keyword: total biota Theme_Keyword: nonindigenous and cryptogenic marine taxa Theme_Keyword: frequency of occurrence of species Theme_Keyword: distribution and relative abundance of Mycale armata Theme_Keyword: relative abundance of the invasive algae Dictyosphaeria cavernosa, Gracilaria salicornia, and Kappaphycus sp. Theme_Keyword: percent cover of Mycale armata, macroalgae, corals and other invertebrates, and substratum types within the photoquadrats Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Theme Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral Reef Ecology > Invasive/introduced Species Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Discovery Thesaurus Theme_Keyword: Numeric Data Sets > Biology Theme: Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category Theme_Keyword: environment Theme_Keyword: 007 Theme_Keyword: biota Theme_Keyword: 002 Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None Place_Keyword: Hawaiian Islands Place_Keyword: Oahu Place_Keyword: Kaneohe Bay Place_Keyword: Coconut Island Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Region Place_Keyword: MHI Place: Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: CoRIS Place Thesaurus Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Oahu Island > Oahu (21N157W0003) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Oahu (21N157W0003) Place_Keyword: COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > Hawaii > Honolulu > Kaneohe Bay (21N157W0004) Place_Keyword: OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Hawaiian Islands > Oahu Island > Kaneohe Bay (21N157W0004) 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: Steve L. Coles Contact_Position: Scientist Contact_Address: Address_Type: mailing address Address: Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice St. City: Honolulu State_or_Province: HI Postal_Code: 96817 Country: U.S.A. Contact_Voice_Telephone: (808) 847-8256 Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (808) 841-8968 Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: slcoles@bishopmuseum.org Hours_of_Service: 9:00 - 5:00PM, Pacific time Contact_Instructions: E-mail/phone/letter Data_Set_Credit: Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative,Bishop Museum Native_Data_Set_Environment: Excel spreadsheets, PDF, MS Word, JPEG Data_Quality_Information: Logical_Consistency_Report: see Lineage, Process Step Completeness_Report: the survey was 100% completed Lineage: Process_Step: Process_Description: details at ../data/0-data/Photoquadrats/Method Manual.doc (.pdf) ../data/0-data/Photoquadrats/HCRI Report Year2.doc (.pdf) Coles, S.L. and H.Bolick, 2006. Assessment of Invasiveness of the Orange Keyhole Sponge Mycale armata in Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. 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