CRED REA Coral Health and Disease Assessment at Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2008
Coral health and disease assessments were conducted along 2 consecutively placed 25-m transects, as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 5 sites around Howland Island in the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs) from 24 January to 14 February 2008, aboard the NOAA ship Hi'ialakai, during the Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HI0801. Within an area of 1-3m on each side of both transect lines, each colony was inspected and every diseased/afflicted coral enumerated and identified to the lowest taxonomic level. Raw data included: 1) area surveyed, 2) colony size, 3) taxon identification, 4) type of disease/lesion 5) percent live/dead tissue, 6) severity, 7) lesion distribution, and 8) photographic record. Tissue samples of selected cases were procured for histopathological analyses. These data provide the basis for computing quantitative estimates of disease incidence and prevalence. Samples and photographs provide aid in further disease characterization and description. Histological tissue samples are traditionally fixed in a formaldehyde solution prior to preparation for processing and analysis.
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| accessLevel | non-public |
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{ "fn": "Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)", "@type": "vcard:Contact", "hasEmail": "mailto:nmfs.pic.credinfo@noaa.gov" } |
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| description | Coral health and disease assessments were conducted along 2 consecutively placed 25-m transects, as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 5 sites around Howland Island in the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs) from 24 January to 14 February 2008, aboard the NOAA ship Hi'ialakai, during the Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP) Cruise HI0801. Within an area of 1-3m on each side of both transect lines, each colony was inspected and every diseased/afflicted coral enumerated and identified to the lowest taxonomic level. Raw data included: 1) area surveyed, 2) colony size, 3) taxon identification, 4) type of disease/lesion 5) percent live/dead tissue, 6) severity, 7) lesion distribution, and 8) photographic record. Tissue samples of selected cases were procured for histopathological analyses. These data provide the basis for computing quantitative estimates of disease incidence and prevalence. Samples and photographs provide aid in further disease characterization and description. Histological tissue samples are traditionally fixed in a formaldehyde solution prior to preparation for processing and analysis. |
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| identifier | https://data.noaa.gov/waf/NOAA/coris/fgdc/iso/xml/cred_rea_coral_disease_howland_2008_ISO.xml |
| issued | 2010-02-15T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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[ "CoRIS_Metadata", "Incidence and characterization of coral diseases in the U.S. Pacific Islands", "1841", "Marine Ecosystem", "Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (RAMP)", "Rapid Ecological Assessments (REA)", "Coral Reef", "Coral disease", "Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIAs)", "Howland", "HI0801", "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs", "EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Coastal Processes > Coral Reefs > Coral reef ecology > Coral cover", "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Coral Diseases", "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef monitoring and assessment", "EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Zoology > Corals > Reef monitoring and assessment > Rapid assessment studies", "Numeric Data Sets > Biology", "Howland Island", "Phoenix Islands", "Equatorial Islands", "USA Minor Outlying Islands", "OCEAN BASIN > Pacific Ocean > Central Pacific Ocean > Howland Island > Howland Island (00S176W0001)", "COUNTRY/TERRITORY > United States of America > USA Minor Outlying Islands > Howland Island (00S176W0001)", "PRIA" ] |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2010-02-15T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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{ "name": "Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)", "@type": "org:Organization" } |
| rights | otherRestrictions, unclassified |
| spatial | -176.589225,0.773198,-176.649617,0.848384 |
| temporal | 2008-02-06T00:00:00+00:00/2008-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 |
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[ "geospatial" ] |
| title | CRED REA Coral Health and Disease Assessment at Howland Island, Phoenix Islands, Pacific Remote Island Areas in 2008 |
