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AIMS, Long-Term Fish Visual Census, Great Barrier Reef, Northeast Australia, 1992-2015

Dataset homepage

Citation

Sweatman H (2016). AIMS, Long-Term Fish Visual Census, Great Barrier Reef, Northeast Australia, 1992-2015. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/qzw2et accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-12-08.

Description

About 50 selected reefs throughout the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are sampled in the AIMS Long-term Monitoring Project (LTMP). A visual census of fish on fixed transects (3 sites per reef, 5 x 50 m transects per site). Fishes from a list of 191 species, representing 10 families, are counted. Individuals, Genus, Species are counted for a prescribed list of 212 species: all the parrotfishes, damselfishes, surgeon fishes, butterflyfishes, and some others. A full list of species observed each year are included in the appendices of each AIMS status report. To detect changes in reef fish communities over time at a regional scale. Source/more information: http://data.aims.gov.au/metadataviewer/uuid/5be0b340-4ade-11dc-8f56-00008a07204e

Purpose

The dataset was prepared by AIMS for the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (www.iobis.org)

Sampling Description

Study Extent

About 50 selected reefs throughout the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are sampled in the AIMS Long-term Monitoring Project (LTMP). Annual visual surveys.

Sampling

Reef surveys involve three approaches: 1. broadscale manta tow surveys of crown-of-thorns starfish populations and reef-wide coral cover 2. Intensive photographic surveys of stationary seafloor (benthic) organisms on fixed transects 3. intensive visual counts of reef fish, juvenile corals, crown-of-thorns starfish, coral-eating snails and coral disease and bleaching.

Method steps

  1. See http://www.aims.gov.au/docs/research/monitoring/reef/sampling-methods.html

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS The AIMS_FISH_1992_2015 dataset is hosted at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Information and Data Centre on behalf of AIMS.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Great Barrier Reef, NE Coast of Queensland, Australia

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Hugh Sweatman
originator
position: Custodian
Australian Institute of Marine Science
1526 Cape Cleveland Road
Cape Cleveland
4810
Queensland
AU
Telephone: +61 7 4753 4470
email: h.sweatman@aims.gov.au
homepage: http://data.aims.gov.au/staffcv/jsf/external/view.xhtml?partyId=100000177
metadata author
position: Data Officer
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Information and Data Centre
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
TAS
AU
Telephone: +61 3 9545 2176
email: OBISAU@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/
distributor
position: Data Officer
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Information and Data Centre
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
TAS
AU
Telephone: +61 3 9545 2176
email: OBISAU@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/
administrative point of contact
position: Data Officer
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Information and Data Centre
GPO Box 1538
Hobart
7001
TAS
AU
Telephone: +61 3 9545 2176
email: OBISAU@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/datacentre/
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