Leveraging Automated Image Analysis Tools to Transform Our Capacity to Assess Status and Trends of Coral Reefs
Digital photography is widely used by coral reef monitoring programs to assess benthic status and trends. In addition to creating a permanent archive, photographic surveys can be rapidly conducted, which is important in environments where bottom-time is f...
Analysis of Benthic Survey Images via CoralNet: A Summary of Standard Operating Procedures and Guidelines (2022 update) Public Version
This is a reference document that provides guidelines for training and the analysis of images on CoralNet from surveys conducted by the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD), formerly known as the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), of the NOAA Pacific Isla...
Baseline Surveys for Coral Reef Community Structure and Demographics in Vatia Bay and Faga'alu Bay, American Samoa
"This report describes the results of baseline assessment surveys for coral reef benthic structure, coral community demographics, and health condition conducted in Vatia Bay and Fagaalu Bay, American Samoa, by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP) of NO...
Managing marine disease emergencies in an era of rapid change
Infectious marine diseases can decimate populations and are increasing among some taxa due to global change and our increasing reliance on marine environments. Marine diseases become emergencies when significant ecological, economic or social impacts occu...
Analysis of Benthic Survey Images via CoralNet: A Summary of Standard Operating Procedures and Guidelines
"This document is intended as a reference and provides guidelines for training and the analysis of images on CoralNet from surveys conducted by the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program (CREP), Ecosystem Sciences Division of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Scie...
The impact of individual and combined abiotic factors on daily otolith growth in a coral reef fish
Coral reefs are increasingly subjected to both local and global stressors, however, there is limited information on how reef organisms respond to their combined effects under natural conditions. This field study examined the growth response of the damself...
Cellular plasticity facilitates phenotypic change in a dominant coral’s Symbiodiniaceae assemblage
Coral-associated dinoflagellates (Symbiodiniaceae) are photosynthetic endosymbionts that influence coral acclimation, as indicated by photo-endosymbiotic phenotypic variance across different environmental conditions. Symbiont shuffling (shifts in endosymb...
Within-region differences in growth responses of an herbivorous coral reef fish to local and regional climatic processes
Understanding how environmental stressors impact fisheries is imperative for the sustainable management of our marine resources. Synchrony in inter-annual growth patterns among individuals and populations has been identified across large spatial scales, b...
Findings of the SEFSC Commercial Electronic Logbook Pilot Program
The Fisheries Statistics Division (FSD) of the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) ran a pilot between April-November of 2015 to test the feasibility electronic reporting (e-logbooks) in the Southeast for federal commercially permitted coastal and ...
Bottom-up processes mediated by social systems drive demographic traits of coral-reef fishes