Description
The objective of the Coral Reef Monitoring for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Tobago project was to strengthen the coral reef monitoring network in the region and to conduct an assessment of the coral reefs in these participating countries. In 2007 an agreement was made between the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), the executing agency for the Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Changes (MACC) project, and the Centre for Marine Sciences (CMS) to implement this monitoring programme which was conducted during the period 2007-2009.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 37 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Creary Ford M, M. Archibald, G. Brown, D. Chin, J. Defoe, P. Gayle, J. Gomez, L. Grant, S. Green, D. Henry, C. Issac, L. Jones-Smith, I. Kenny, L. Laurence, J. Mitchell, S. Nimrod, H. Prospere, N. Sang, B. Simon, H. Small, O. Spence, S. Steele, C. Stoute, D. Theophile, A. Titus, L. Wilkins, P. Wilson-Kelly, K. Wulf (2018): Coral Reef Monitoring in the OECS and Tobago, 2007-2009. v1.1. Caribbean Coastal Data Centre, Centre for Marine Sciences. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=macc_coral_monitoring&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Caribbean Coastal Data Centre, Centre for Marine Sciences. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5eae3213-f054-4ddc-a6c8-3fa494b17907. Caribbean Coastal Data Centre, Centre for Marine Sciences publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Eastern Caribbean; coral reef; video monitoring
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Geographic Coverage
The following islands in the Eastern Caribbean: Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [10.921, -64.094], North East [19.104, -60.469] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Chromista (Algae) |
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| Phylum | Porifiera (Sponges), Chlorophyta (Algae) |
| Order | Scleractinia (Corals), Alcyonacea (Gorgonians) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2007-01-01 / 2009-01-01 |
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Project Data
The objective of this project was to expand the coral reef monitoring programme started under the CPACC (Caribbean Planning for Global Climate Change) Project to the countries of the Eastern Caribbean. The Centre for Marine Sciences (CMS) of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Jamaica was contracted by the MACC (Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change) Project to oversee this process. Sixteen participants from seven Eastern Caribbean countries (Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Tobago) were trained in Saint Lucia, in the coral reef video monitoring protocol developed under Caribbean Planning for Adaptation to Climate Change (CPACC) pilot project during September 2007. Following the training, each country selected a monitoring site and monitoring was conducted at these sites under the supervision of resources persons from the CMS. The videotapes were processed and analyzed at the CMS. This data set provides the data on the percentage of coral species as well as gorgonian, sponges, zoanthids and algae collected at the selected monitoring sites in each country.
| Title | Coral Reef Monitoring for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Tobago (2007-2009) |
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| Identifier | BID-CA2016-0004-SMA |
| Funding | The publishing of this data set was supported through a small grant from GBIF/BID Coral reef monitoring in the OECS and Tobago was implemented through a MOU between the UWI-CMS and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the World Bank. |
| Study Area Description | The study area was comprised of seven islands located in the Eastern Caribbean; Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago. Each country selected coral reef areas for monitoring based on guidelines outline in the site selection protocol |
| Design Description | Monitoring took place under the supervision of the Roving Team Leaders (RTLs) from the CMS in collaboration with local resources persons and volunteers. Each RTL was assigned responsibility for two countries. Each country selected coral reef areas (Operational Areas) for monitoring based on the guidelines outlined in the site selection protocol, taking into consideration the use to which the data would be put, the peculiarities of the area and any constraints that might be encountered during monitoring. Each country was requested to installed 20 permanent transects, each 20m long, at the selected sites. The video monitoring protocol was based on the Aronson method that utilized a high resolution video camera to video tape the substrate. The resultant videotapes were reviewed to ensure that clarity and resolution were satisfactory and then labelled and sent to the CMS for processing and analysis. The Pinnacle Studio™ software was used to capture discrete non‐overlapping adjacent images for each transect. The estimate the benthic cover from images was determined using the Coral Point Count with Excel extensions (CPCe Ver 3.5) software. |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 5eae3213-f054-4ddc-a6c8-3fa494b17907 |
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| https://cloud.gbif.org/bid/resource?r=macc_coral_monitoring |