MCR LTER: Coral Reef: Long-term Community Dynamics: Backreef (Lagoon) Corals Annual Survey, ongoing since 2005 (Reformatted to the ecocomDP Design Pattern)

• Main Authors: Moorea Coral Reef LTER, Peter Edmunds
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2021
• Subjects: Backreef; Community; Demographics; Long-term Time Series; LTER; MCR; Scleractinian Coral; California State University Northridge; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; NSF; Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station; University of California Santa Barbara; French Polynesia; Moorea; Scleractinia; Carbonate rocks; Coral Reefs; Corals; Lagoons; Marine environments; Polyps (organisms); Shallow water; marine; Populations; Time Series Program; Ocean Acidification; Reef Resistance and Resilience; Population and Community Dynamics; communities; community composition; community dynamics; community patterns; species composition; species diversity; species richness; ecocomDP; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation; Porites Porites irregularis; Porites Porites rus; Porites Porites spp. Massive; Porites irregularis; Porites rus; Porites spp. Massive; Pacific; Rus’; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/edi/321/3

This data package is formatted as an ecocomDP (Ecological Community Data Pattern). For more information on ecocomDP see https://github.com/EDIorg/ecocomDP. This Level 1 data package was derived from the Level 0 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-mcr/1038/10. The abstract below was extracted from the Level 0 data package and is included for context: This dataset contains the percentage cover of all stony corals (Scleractinia, pooled among genera) and other major groups analyzed from 0.5 x 0.5 m photographic quadrats at the Backreef habitat at the Moorea Coral Reef LTER, French Polynesia. This survey time series began in 2005 and is repeated each year in April. Functional groups counted are: Scleractinian corals, Macroalgae, Crustose Coralline Algae / Bare Space, Soft Corals, Hydrocorals (Millepora), Algal Turf and Sand. The coral community was sampled photographically in all represented habitats surrounding the island: Fringing Reef, Lagoon, and Outer Reef. This dataset contains only Lagoon (Backreef) data (see knb-lter-mcr.4 for the other habitats) and is structured in a repeated-measures protocol to allow a statistical contrast of sites, shores and times. Community structure was determined through a coarse analysis of the benthic community, initially completed in situ (2005), but using photoquadrats from 2006. There are quadrats analyzed at each of five areas within each site, and the areas are revisited (but not the quadrats) each year to support the repeated measures design. There are two tables available, providing different views of the same data: a long table having all values in one column and a wide table having a separate column for each observed object. Detailed methods are available in the protocols section. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant No. OCE 16-37396 (and earlier awards) as well as a generous gift from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Research was completed under permits issued by the French Polynesian Government (Délégation à la Recherche) and the Haut-commissariat de la République en Polynésie Francaise (DTRT) (Protocole d'Accueil 2005-2018). This work represents a contribution of the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER Site.