Great Barrier Reef Marine Monitoring Program - Coral (MMP)

• Other Authors: A Thompson (hasPrincipalInvestigator), AIMS Data Centre (distributor), AIMS Data Centre (pointOfContact), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) (hasAssociationWith), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) (Party who distributes the resource), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) (Party who can be contacted for acquiring knowledge about or acquisition of the
				resource), Data Manager, AIMS Data Centre (hasAssociationWith), Data Manager, AIMS Data Centre (pointOfContact), Thompson, Angus, Mr (Party that accepts accountability and responsability for the data and ensures
				appropriate care and maintenance of the resource)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Institute of Marine Science
• Subjects: oceans; Dent; Mackay; Elliot; Fitzroy; Shute; Pelican Island; High Island; Fitzroy Island; Halfway Island; Middle Island; Keppel Island; Cone Island; Geoffrey Bay; Middle Reef; Dent Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/great-barrier-reef-coral-mmp/677405

Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded Statement: The Marine Monitoring Program has assumed multiple names: 2005-2008: Reef Water Quality Protection Plan Marine Monitoring Programme (Reef Plan MMP) 2009-2013: Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Programme 2015: Reef 2050 Plan Marine Monitoring Program (MMP) 2016 - : Great Barrier Reef Marine Monitoring Program (MMP) Credit Thompson, Angus, Mr (Custodian) Monitoring has been carried out on inshore reefs since 2005. Benthic community monitoring program variables: Ongoing: percent cover of benthic organisms nominally to genus level resolution (hard corals, soft corals and macroalgae); densities of juvenile corals; prevalence of coral diseases; Ended (last sample): settlement of coral larvae to tiles(2012); numbers of genera; size distributions of coral colonies (2005); composition of benthic Foraminifera communities (2014, ongoing collection of samples in storage). Sediment sample variables: grain size fractions; nitrogen; organic, inorganic and total carbon (2014, grainsize samples in storage). Sediment samples 2015-2020 collected, in storage but no grainsize or chemical analysis undertaken. Geographic areas (note not all locations have all data in all years) relate to Natural Resource Management (NRM): Wet Tropics NRM, NQ Dry Tropics NRM, Mackay Whitsunday Isaac NRM, Fitzroy Basin NRM. Reef locations: Barren Island, Bedarra Island (started 2016), Daydream Island, Dent Island, Double Cone Island, Dunk Island, Fitzroy Island, Frankland Group, Geoffrey Bay, Havannah Island, High Island, Hook Island, Humpy & Halfway Island, King Reef (ended 2014), Lady Elliot Reef, Middle Island, Middle Reef (ended 2014), North Barnard Group, North Keppel Island, Orpheus Island, Pandora Reef, Peak Island (ended 2020), Pelican Island, Pelorus Island, Pine Island, Seaforth Island, Shute & Tancred Island, Snapper Island, Cape Tribulation fringing reefs (ended 2006). Data monitors the condition of coral community characteristics on inshore reefs of the Great Barrier Reef. This ...