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AIMS, Long-Term Fish Visual Census, Great Barrier Reef, Northeast Australia, 1992-2015
Citation
Sweatman HPA, Cheal AJ, Coleman GJ, Emslie MJ, Johns K, Jonker M, Miller IR and Osborne K (2008) Long-term Monitoring of the Great Barrier reef, Status Report. 8. Australian Institute of Marine Science. 369 p. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5234
Contact:
Sweatman, Hugh
Availability: This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ISEW, Great Barrier Reef
Geographical coverage
ISEW, Great Barrier Reef [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
28 March 1992 - 7 May 2015
Parameter
Occurrence of biota
Contributors
Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), data creator
Sweatman, Hugh
Cheal, Alistair
Coleman, Greg
Emslie, Michael
Johns, Kerryn
Jonker, Michelle
Miller, Ian
Osborne, Kate
Cheal, Alistair
Coleman, Greg
Emslie, Michael
Johns, Kerryn
Jonker, Michelle
Miller, Ian
Osborne, Kate
Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-Australia: Australian Ocean Biodiversity Information System
URLs
Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2016-01-20
Information last updated: 2016-01-20