Status of coral communities in American Samoa: a survey of long-term monitoring sites, 1992-2002

0068364 0068717 9800197 9900054 BENTHIC COMMUNITIES biological data CORAL CORAL - BLEACHING CORAL - CENSUS CORAL - COLONY SIZE CORAL - SPECIES IDENTIFICATION FISH - CORAL REEF FISH SPECIES FISHERY SURVEY INVERTEBRATE SPECIES MACROINVERTEBRATE CENSUS MARINE SPECIES INVENTORY REEF AND/OR BOTTOM REGIME - PERCENT COVER SPECIES - PERCENT OCCURRENCE SPECIES IDENTIFICATION SUBSTRATUM PERCENT COVER camera GPS laboratory analysis photograph swimmer/diver visual estimate visual observation benthic biological composition & location site samples survey survey - biological survey - coral reef survey - swimmer/diver visual estimate SWIMMER/DIVER American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Memorial University of Newfoundland Meteorological Society of Japan Mie Prefectural Fisheries Experimental Station Oceanic Institute The Nature Conservancy University of Guam University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa University of Tasmania US DOI/USGS - Honolulu American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Oceanic Institute The Nature Conservancy University of Guam University of Tasmania US DOI/USGS - Honolulu COASTAL Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) CORAL REEF STUDIES Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary South Pacific Ocean Southwest Pacific Ocean (limit-147 E to 140 W) oceanography DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NODC > National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOI/USGS > U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior TNC > The Nature Conservancy American Samoa Coral Ecosystem Assessment Numeric Data Sets > Benthic Numeric Data Sets > Biology Numeric Data Sets > Oceanography EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > REEF > CORAL REEF EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > COASTAL PROCESSES > CORAL REEFS > CORAL BLEACHING EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOMORPHIC LANDFORMS/PROCESSES > COASTAL LANDFORMS > CORAL REEFS Algae Census Coastal studies Coral Coral reef Coral reef monitoring and assessment Coral species abundance Corals (branching, digitate, encrusting, foliaceous, massive, mushroom, plate) Invertebrate (ascidian, clam, hydrozoan, soft coral, sponge, urchin algae - CCA) Invertebrate (individual counts per 100 m2, abundance) Macroalgae Macroalgae (encrusting, blue green, Halimeda, macroalgae, crustose coralline Non-living (crevice/hole; reef matrix, rubble, sand) Non-living substrate Numeric Data Sets Numeric Data Sets - benthic Numeric Data Sets - biology Numeric Data Sets - oceanographic Size distribution of colonies benthic data (identification by species, per cent coverage): biological data coastal data coral colony diameter coral species coral table top recruits fish species fish species list mean adult biomass of each of the 12 most abundant fish families mean adult density of each of the 12 most abundant fish families mean adult species richness of each of the 12 most abundant fish families mean density of crown of thorns starfish mean density of most abundant juvenile fishes mean density of the most abundant species of butterflyfish observations of coral bleaching on the reef slope percent coverage of each benthic type (by species) size of 2 main species size of 4 main families size structure of 4 main families species richness substratum cover (percent) by category total and relative abundance of family total and relative abundance of species zooanthid abundance algae species coral bleaching (per cent) coral colony density coral colony size coral percent cover coral population size structure coral species degree of bleaching marine organisms nonindigenous and crytogenic marine species number of coral colonies reef fish species taxa total biota CAMERA > CAMERA GPS RECEIVERS > GPS RECEIVERS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS > VISUAL OBSERVATIONS SWIMMER/DIVER (ICES code: 33DV) OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN > POLYNESIA > SAMOA American Samoa Fagasa Bay Fagatele Bay Ofu Pago Pago Harbor South Pacific Ocean Tutuila Vatia Bay American Samoa Aunu'u, Aunu'u Ofu, Asaga Ofu, Hurricane House Ofu, Hurricane House, lagoon Ofu, Ofu Village Ofu, Vaoto Lodge, lagoon Olosega, Olosega Village Olosega, Sili Rose Atoll South Pacific Swains Island Ta'u, Afuli Ta'u, Faga Ta'u, Fagamalo Ta'u, Lepula Tutuila, Amanave Tutuila, Aoa Tutuila, Aua Tutuila, Faga'alu Tutuila, Fagafue Tutuila, Fagaitua Tutuila, Fagamalo Tutuila, Fagasa Tutuila, Fagatele Tutuila, Fatumafuti Tutuila, Leloaloa Tutuila, Leone Tutuila, Masefau Tutuila, Nu'uuli Tutuila, Onesosopo Tutuila, Utulei Tutuila, Vatia Upolu, Ewa Upolu, Fagaloa Upolu, Faleasi'u Upolu, Lefaga Upolu, Poutari Upolu, Sa'anapu Upolu, Vaitele Western Samoa Afuli Amanave Amaua American Samoa Aoa Asaga Aua Aunu'u Aunu'u Island Cape Larsen Faga Faga'alu Fagafue Fagaitua Fagamalo Fagamalo Cove Faganeanea Fagasa Fagatele Fagatele Bay Fagatele National Marine Sanctuary Fatu Rock Fatumafuti Leloaloa Leone Lepula Masacre Masefau Massacre Bay Nu'uuli Ofu Island Ofu Village Olesega Elementary School Onenoa Onesosopo Pacific Ocean Pago Pago Rainmaker Rainmaker Hotel Sili Sita Bay South Pacific South Pacific Ocean Taema Banks Tafeu Tutuila Tutuila Island Utelei Vatia the Manua Group of islands (Ofu, Olosega, and Tau)